I have a webpage that is displayed using the SOTI Surf restricted browser, and have a requirement to disable the pull-to-refresh browser functionality.
To do this, I tried to add this CSS to the webpage:
body {
overscroll-behavior: contain;
}
This works good in Chrome, both in the browser and as an Android PWA, but doesn't take effect in SOTI Surf. When that didn't work, I also tried to add a listener for the beforeunload event to prevent automatic refreshing, and once again it worked in Chrome but not SOTI Surf.
What's the best way to go about disabling the pull-to-refresh functionality in SOTI Surf?
There's not a lot you can do to disable this on the web side of things without resorting to nasty hacks. The browser doesn't respect the overscroll-behavior CSS property, and it also doesn't hook the beforeunload event.
Starting from Version 15.2, system administrators can send a legacy script to a MobiControl-enabled device to enable/disable the pull-to-refresh functionality.
sendinfo net.soti.action.surf DISABLEPULLTOREFRESH 1
To re-enable pull-to-refresh functionality, you can send the same script, but change the 1 to a 0.