Looking at the traffic that connects a remote Indigo client to its server (whether it's a Mac or an iPhone), it looks like straight, plaintext, http. This means that if I connect from "out there" to my server, anyone one the Internet who can watch my packets can tell what I'm telling my server to do (device names, activity, etc.) and what it answers back.

How do I arrange for the client/server connection to be encrypted (https, I presume)?

Yes, I realize I can do this over an ssh tunnel from my laptop, but that won't work on iPhone. Besides, it's cumbersome.

Thanks
-- perry

Perry The Cynic wrote:Looking at the traffic that connects a remote Indigo client to its server (whether it's a Mac or an iPhone), it looks like straight, plaintext, http. This means that if I connect from "out there" to my server, anyone one the Internet who can watch my packets can tell what I'm telling my server to do (device names, activity, etc.) and what it answers back.

How do I arrange for the client/server connection to be encrypted (https, I presume)?

Yes, I realize I can do this over an ssh tunnel from my laptop, but that won't work on iPhone. Besides, it's cumbersome.

Thanks
-- perry

That's the only way to encrypt the traffic between the Mac client and the server (I've personally never tried it). The iPhone client uses the Indigo Web Server for communication, so if you use the Prism reflector service the traffic is all via https.

jay wrote:

Perry The Cynic wrote:Looking at the traffic that connects a remote Indigo client to its server (whether it's a Mac or an iPhone), it looks like straight, plaintext, http. This means that if I connect from "out there" to my server, anyone one the Internet who can watch my packets can tell what I'm telling my server to do (device names, activity, etc.) and what it answers back.

How do I arrange for the client/server connection to be encrypted (https, I presume)?

Yes, I realize I can do this over an ssh tunnel from my laptop, but that won't work on iPhone. Besides, it's cumbersome.

Thanks
-- perry

That's the only way to encrypt the traffic between the Mac client and the server (I've personally never tried it). The iPhone client uses the Indigo Web Server for communication, so if you use the Prism reflector service the traffic is all via https.

You can always create a VPN; or use a SSH tunnel for remote mac connections and use a reverse proxy through apache for SSL for the iPhone/Web.

Jamus