5.3

NOTE You can use HTML Access in conjunction with VMware Horizon Workspace to allow users to
connect to their desktops from an HTML5 browser. For information about installing Horizon Workspace
and configuring it for use with View Connection Server, see the Horizon Workspace documentation. For
information about pairing View Connection Server with a SAML Authentication server, see the
VMware Horizon View Administration documentation.
System Requirements for Flash URL Redirection
To support Flash URL Redirection, your Horizon View deployment must meet certain software and
hardware requirements.
Flash media player and
ShockWave Flash
(SWF)
You must integrate an appropriate Flash media player such as Strobe Media
Playback into your Web site. To stream multicast content, you can use
multicastplayer.swf or StrobeMediaPlayback.swf in your Web pages. To
stream live unicast content, you must use StrobeMediaPlayback.swf. You can
also use StrobeMediaPlayback.swf for other supported features such as
RTMP streaming and HTTP dynamic streaming.
Horizon View desktop
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The desktops must run Windows 7 64-bit or 32-bit operating systems.
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The desktops must have View Agent 5.3 installed.
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Supported desktop browsers include Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10,
Chrome 29.x, and Firefox 20.x.
Horizon View Client
software
The following Horizon View Client releases support multicast and unicast:
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Horizon View Client 2.2 for Linux or a later release
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Horizon View Client 2.2 for Windows or a later release
The following Horizon View Client releases support multicast only (they do
not support unicast):
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Horizon View Client 2.0 or 2.1 for Linux
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Horizon View Client 5.4 for Windows
View Client computer or
client access device
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Flash URL Redirection is supported on all operating systems that run
Horizon View Client for Linux on x86 Thin client devices. This feature is
not supported on ARM processors.
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Flash URL Redirection is supported on all operating systems that run
Horizon View Client for Windows. For details, see the Using
VMware Horizon View Client for Windows document.
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On Windows client devices, you must install Adobe Flash Player 10.1 or
later for Internet Explorer.
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On Linux Thin client devices, you must install the libexpat.so.0 and
libflashplayer.so files. See “Set Up Client Devices for Flash URL
Redirection,” on page 30.
NOTE With Flash URL Redirection, the multicast or unicast stream is
redirected to client devices that might be outside your organization's
firewall. Your clients must have access to the Adobe Web server that hosts
the ShockWave Flash (SWF) file that initiates the multicast or unicast
streaming. If needed, configure your firewall to open the appropriate ports to
allow client devices to access this server.
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