Using Wildnet With pCloudy Desktop Assistant

Overview:

This documentation will help you with the steps to use the Wildnet feature using the pCloudy Desktop Application (PDA). Incase you haven't downloaded or installed the PDA on your system or need help with the installation please click here.

Prerequisite

Users should have already downloaded and installed the PDA application on their system

Users should be registered on the pCloudy platform.

Please ensure that the below mentioned URLs/IPs are allowed in your network

https://wildnetserverservices.pcloudy.com
IP: 65.1.200.201
https://wildnetservices.pcloudy.com
IP: 3.6.161.28
https://wildnetservices.pcloudy.com

Enable the below mentioned ports for Wildnet feature

80 -- HTTP
443 -- HTTPS

Using PDA, users can use Debug proxy and Direct proxy.

These are option fields and present under Advance tab

In Advance tab

Debug Proxy is a Network traffic monitor that helps you to debug your network applications i.e. it lets you check if your REST API is working correctly, do latency check etc.

Here we have used Charles as an example.

E.g-: Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).

E.g-:https://127.0.0.1:8888

Steps to use Debug Proxy

Enter Debug proxy

E.g-:https://127.0.0.1:8888

For Charles proxy -> Open Charles Proxy

Hover over the settings icon and choose Proxy Settings

On the Proxies tab in the Proxy Settings Dialog box, you will find the Port number under the HTTP Proxy section.

Please make a note of the proxy port listed.

Open the pCloudy Desktop Assistant (PDA) on your system. Incase you haven't downloaded or installed the PDA on your system or need help with the installation please click here. Once you open the PDA application, you will need to fill in the field to authenticate.

In the Advance section, you will need to enter the proxy port from Charles Proxy into the Debug proxy field.

After entering the fields click on the arrow mark as shown in below screenshot

After successful authentication, user will see Wildnet

Note: Users can use one or more than one feature as per their need at a time.

Wildnet

Steps to use wildnet

Click on Wildnet tab

Click on Activate button

Once feature is activated, Go to the Device page in pCloudy platform, connect the device and click on Enable Wildnet as shown in below screenshot

Open any local URL that needs to be tested and you can perform the local testing on the pCloudy platform seamlessly.

Note:

Users can use wildnet feature on other clouds as well, if the user is registered with the same email address on other clouds.

Now, you can go to Charles Proxy Inspector to inspect each request/response to check the Web Debugging performance.

Direct Proxy

In Direct Proxy: The browser/client is "proxy aware" and will actively send traffic to the Web Gateway. The client will try and directly communicate with its destination.