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400 Bad Request on local admin browser
I'm now getting to 400 Bad request pop up in various browser admin pages when accessing my Orbi RBR50 that's been on the same latest firmware for over a year now. I get the 400 error always when ...
Update:
I restored an older backup from last year and this resolved the issue with the web UI not displaying some menus and the 400 bad request error. I can navigate around the web UI fine using Safari and HTTPS. This back up was not materially different in terms of config.
However, Chrome still refuses access using HTTPS and I prefer not to set the Netgear to HTTP only, so I will stick with Safari.
This also shows that its worth taking backups every few months as the most recent one I had was corrupt in some odd way to cause just the web UI to misbehave but only with some menu options/selections. Fickle stuff this Orbi and app.
CrimpOn wrote:
I may be mistaken, but my memory is that the choice is:
- Allow either http OR https web access, vs.
- Allow ONLY https web access.
That's certainly what I see.
Do that and you may break things. It seems to be intended for remote access into a router. Turning that on for local access has reduced people to gibbering wrecks until they turn up here and someone puts them out of their misery and they turn off that switch.
If you are connecting locally, then insisting on https is essentially paranoia. This is a local connection to our equipment. If you can trust friends and family – and have a decent password for the router – there isn't much chance that the Kremlin will break into your network. There are too many hurdles in the way.
Router users have happily managed with an http connection for years. The demand for https seems to have come from people who don't understand how network security works.
Then there is the increasing paranoia in browser builders. They try to protect people and do things like blocking http, requiring users to jump through various hoops to reach their own equipment.
Just another user with time on their hands.
And, to make matters even less clear, this enable/disable option appears on a web page titled
YEARS ago, Orbi routers had an option to allow access to the web interface from the internet (through the WAN port).This was restricted to https and this second option was to force local access to be restricted to https as well.
When the Orbi 'app' came out, Netgear removed the ability to access the web interface from the internet, but left this option. Personally, I loved the ability to enable/disable access from the internet.
Netgear has also removed the ability to use Remote Management "for security reasons" and to urge us to use the Nighthawk/Orbi apps.
Why is the Remote Management feature being removed from NETGEAR routers? - NETGEAR Support
Just another user with time on their hands.