Can access by http, but not with https

[RChadwick]

I'd like to access BI remotely through the Internet, without sending credentials plain text. I'm guessing HTTP is not the best way to do that. However, I can't get HTTPS working.
To keep things simple, everything is on the same LAN. I haven't opened any ports yet.
When I got to http://BI-Ipaddress:81, I get the web interface fine. If I go to https://BI-Ipaddress, I get nothing. If I add :443 at the end, I still get nothing. I've tried checking 'Stunnel is installed for HTTPS on port: 443', as well as 'HTTPS LAN also'. Although it says I can access it at https://BI-Ipaddress, it just times out.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

 

[fenderman]

I'd like to access BI remotely through the Internet, without sending credentials plain text. I'm guessing HTTP is not the best way to do that. However, I can't get HTTPS working.
To keep things simple, everything is on the same LAN. I haven't opened any ports yet.
When I got to http://BI-Ipaddress:81, I get the web interface fine. If I go to https://BI-Ipaddress, I get nothing. If I add :443 at the end, I still get nothing. I've tried checking 'Stunnel is installed for HTTPS on port: 443', as well as 'HTTPS LAN also'. Although it says I can access it at https://BI-Ipaddress, it just times out.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Blue iris does not pass credentials in plain text even when using http...
If you want to use https then you need stunnel, see this thread.
http://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php/2131-stunnel/page2?highlight=stunnel

 

[bp2008]

Stunnel is a 3rd-party program which provides the https connection. You have to install and configure that before you can use https with Blue Iris.

If you use BI with the Secure Only option checked, it will salt and hash the password (this is a form of encryption) before transmission so it is not plain text, but the user name and everything else still is plain text.