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thusband
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Connection is not secure warning

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Every once in a while I get a warning that SABnzbd is not secure and I have to disable security warnings. Something about an invalid certificate? I'm using the latest stable SABnzbd on a Win 10 NUC using the latest Chrome browser along with Sonarr, Radarr, NZB Hydra and Plex.

Today SABnzbd completely grayed out and I couldn't access anything. After poking around a popup finally appeared allowing me to disable the warning. I still have the not secure warning showing at the top where the site address is. It looks like everything is running now but I'm not sure for how long.

How do I fix this permanently?

Many thanks.
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Re: Connection is not secure warning

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Which connection: from your browser to you SABnzbd, or from SABnzbd to your newsserver?
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Re: Connection is not secure warning

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Sorry, it's from the browser to SABnzbd. The screen goes a little gray and nothing works. It's just SABnzbd, all the other applications work.

In the security warning it's says something about an invalid certificate. Probably a Chrome thing?
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Re: Connection is not secure warning

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Chrome is becoming more and more strict on what it considers safe:

Chrome now only considers safe: valid SSL with HTTPS.
Chrome considers unsafe: HTTP
Chrome considers unsafe: self-signed SSL with HTTPS

On your LAN, you have private IP addresses for which you cannot get a valid SSL. So ... no solution possible on your LAN to makes Chrome happy.

Well ... you could generate a SSL and then import it at OS and/or Browser level. I tried it once, and it looked complicated. I believe this is what companies do on their WANs.

Having written the above ... I cannot remember my Chrome is complaing about the SAB connection to 192.168.1.4 ... weird.
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Re: Connection is not secure warning

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OK thanks. I guess I'll live with it. SABnzbd performs flawlessly.
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Re: Connection is not secure warning

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I checked, and I access my SAB instances via HTTP (not HTTPS), and Chrome does not complain ... just a small note left of the URL "not secure". No popups etc

http://127.0.0.1:8080/
http://192.168.1.4:8080/

So ... worth a try: turn off "Enable HTTPS" in SABnzbd on http://127.0.0.1:8080/config/general/

Because of the Chrome behaviour, SAB now says, at "Enable HTTPS": "WARNING Modern web browsers and other clients will not accept self-signed certificates and will give a warning and/or won't connect at all."

... so 'better' to leave HTTPS off and use plain HTTP.
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Re: Connection is not secure warning

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Hi! SABnzbd 2.3.2 running on a High Sierra (10.13.4) iMac here.

Whenever I try to open SABnzbd on Safari, it warns me that "this connection is not private"and asks me to modify my security settings in order to accept the self-signed certificate SABnzbd uses for HTTPS...

Trouble is: accepting that usually worked in the past; now, I guess that after installing 10.13.4, even if I accept that, it doesn't work.

Is there a way of generating a certificate that will be accepted? Or turning off HTTPS without logging onto SABnzbd (as this is exactly what I cannot do)?

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Re: Connection is not secure warning

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Hi! SABnzbd 2.3.2 running on a High Sierra (10.13.4) iMac here.
We're on 3.2.1, so upgrade SAB
Or turning off HTTPS
Yes, do that.
without logging onto SABnzbd (as this is exactly what I cannot do)?
Well, you can tell your browser to accept the connection. In Chrome, the page shows an Advanced button.
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Re: Connection is not secure warning

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Turning off "Enable HTTPS" in SABnzbd seems to have stopped my Chrome browser from complaining. Great suggestion.

Many thanks!
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Re: Connection is not secure warning

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opentoe wrote: May 10th, 2021, 11:44 am ...
No, not related, so I'll remove your post.
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