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iduff
Jan 16, 2020Aspirant
SSL or TLS on a CM1000?
Howdy, team. I can't log into my CM1000 using https, nor can I find mention of it supporting either SSL or TLS. Am I whistling past the graveyard, and it does indeed not support it? If not ...
FURRYe38
Jan 16, 2020Guru - Experienced User
HTTPS isn't supported nor has ever been. Not sure if NG or other Modem Mfrs will ever use HTTPS for a LAN side web page access.
Just use HTTP.
iduff
Jan 16, 2020Aspirant
FURRYe38 wrote:HTTPS isn't supported nor has ever been. Not sure if NG or other Modem Mfrs will ever use HTTPS for a LAN side web page access.
Just use HTTP.
Strange, every other one of my Netgear devices accepts https. Why not my Netgear cable modem?
- FURRYe38Jan 17, 2020Guru - Experienced User
My modems don't accept HTTPS either.
- iduffJan 17, 2020Aspirant
Gotcha, but wondering why? Everything else I have from Netgear does.
And wondering if I'm just suffering from a shortage of talent (quite common in my case), and missing how to get in via https...
- FURRYe38Jan 17, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Nobody knows. In most cases HTTPS isn't really needed. Its a LAN side access point. Unless you have someone doing nefarious things on the LAN side, kind of useless to have something that gets only used when accessing the UI from the LAN side.