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Dusty_Camp's avatar
Dusty_Camp
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Jan 25, 2024

Citrix Storefront with Chromebook Receiver App

Hey, everyone. I'm slamming my head against a wall on this one. I have Citrix Storefront deployed through the iApp f5.citrix_vdi.v2.4.6. It's been a nightmare getting it to work with my environment, ...
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BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
Lucas_Thompson's avatar
Lucas_Thompson
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Jan 25, 2024

I believe ChromeOS apps are interpreted javascript via Webkit, so they rely on the browser to do all of the network calls. Since this use case on APM relies (as you've found) on user-agent to figure out if the client is citrix or a browser, it won't work as intended because the citrix app and the browser's requests look the same to the server. 

Google has basically deprecated native ChromeOS apps though. I wonder if you could use the Android version, as mentioned in this Citrix blog post from a few years ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200408121108/https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2020/01/17/transitioning-to-citrix-workspace-app-for-android-on-chrome-os/

 

 

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Dusty_Camp
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Feb 01, 2024

Also, I think Google must have changed their mind on native ChromeOS apps because this one we're running was released in December of 2023. I wish that weren't the case though!

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    Lucas_Thompson
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    Feb 01, 2024

    Sounds like it's probably time to make a support ticket. The support engineering teams should be able to characterize the issue.