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NormanWoof
Follower
May 24, 2019

XR500 set up frustration

Trying to finish setting up and haven't made it to dashboard screen yet and it keeps me on an unsecure page wanting me to log in to a routerlogin.net site with user and password, how can I get beyond this?

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  • JNewms's avatar
    JNewms
    Guide
    May 25, 2019
    Routerlogin.net is what you sign in to to get to the interface for the router
  • schumaku's avatar
    schumaku
    Guru - Experienced User
    May 26, 2019

    Permitting the connection is using https://routerlogin.net you are on the secure side of the things. Trouble is that browsers consider a plain HTML Basic Auth - before any content data is exchanged - on a https connection insecure. This applies to modern browsers like Chrome, Edge, Firefox, ... regardless of the connection is run e.g. on TLSv1.2, and all the certificate and crypto exchange is done, and the certificate (with the "shared" private key on many products) is perfectly valid.

     

    Netgear must re-think their design philosophy for this process - undoubted a balance between fingerprinting (gee, the certificate does unveil much more). Netduma-Fraser Netduma_Jack Netduma_Luke Netduma_Alex - as the Netgear consumer BU does ignore the community for years, its your turn to push this lack of awareness over to SJ and TPE.

    Unfortunately, we (still, or again) can't use in-line images in this part of the community why ever, so I've merged two images into one atachment.