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n1mm
Aspirant
Sep 27, 2016
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Problem using HTTPS with ReadyShare

Setting up Readyshare to allow access to a thumb drive from the internet. Works fine, except that the connection is HTTP and not HTTPS.  I could deal with no support for HTTPS, but there is no way to specify the link as HTTP and have it work.  The port must be 443 or >= 1024. In any event, if you try to access with HTTP:// it fails, if you use HTTPS:// you get this:


There’s a problem with this website’s security certificate
This might mean that someone’s trying to fool you or steal any info you send to the server. You should close this site immediately.

Go to my homepage instead

Continue to this webpage (not recommended)

 

If you continue to the web page, you get access to the data.  I haven't found anyone else reporting this problem, so I have not found a workaround. Any ideas?

 

Troubleshooting
  • n1mm's avatar
    n1mm
    Oct 28, 2016

    I got this reply from level 3 (via level 2) support: 

     

    Engineers confirmed that this is a device limitation and there is no security issue even if you are getting this message.

    Please see engineers comment:

    "This is a known limitation of all our product, NETGEAR only put this self-signed certificate in FW but not public to root server. Browser will give a warning but user can access page continually without issue. "

    "This will not impact security, this just a warning regarding the certification is not recognize but public."

     

    I will ask for the ability to use port 80 to avoid the error messages. 

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