How do I make SSL work through the firewall?

Answer 1

How do I make SSL work through the firewall?


Security / Firewall



SSL is a protocol that allows secure connections across the Internet.
Typically, SSL is used to protect HTTP traffic. However, other protocols
(such as telnet) can run atop SSL.

Enabling SSL through your firewall can be done the same way that you would
allow HTTP traffic, if it's HTTP that you're using SSL to secure, which is
usually true. The only difference is that instead of using something that
will simply relay HTTP, you'll need something that can tunnel SSL. This is a
feature present on most web object caches.

Answer 2

The default TCP port for SSL I believe is 443, you'd need to make it so that incoming HTTP SSL requests coming in on port 443 are redirected to your web server in your router / firewall configuration.

Answer 3

Change the policy to allow port 443

Answer 4

It really depends on whether you have control over the firewall or not and what you're trying to do.

SSL is typically run on port 443, but you can run it through any port. With web browsers you can do this by tacking the port on after the url such as https://www.yourdomain.com:123 This would try to create a SSL connection to yourdomain.com through port umber 123. Of course, the computer/server you are contacting needs to be setup to be listening to the port your trying to connect with.

If you have control of the firewall, the configure it to allow you to use port 443. If you don't your next best option might be to look into tunneling and see if you can push your port 443 requests through the tunnel instead.

Answer 5

may not apply to all firewalls but generaly it will ask for permision accept or deny access.
in advanced settings you should be able to get it set up there