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hi guys,
i have sabnzbd running sucesfully on my home server. I can access sabnzbd via my browser in my home network, at my friend's network, and also from common hotspots, such as starbucks etc. however, when connected to my internet access at the company i cannot access sabnzbd at all. what can be the issue here? i am using the port 65480 for sabnzbd.

would be happy to read your suggestions. thanks,
k

My guess is that your company's firewall doesn't allow strange port numbers.
You probably have to use port 80 or 443.

You do realize that working this way is not very secure?
Passwords are sent in clear text, because we cannot support SSL connections for the web interface.

out of curiosity; why is it not possible to support SSL connections?

Two problems:
We need to use a new web-frame library, which is a lot of work.
SSL is always a problem, because you need an official or self-signed SSL certificate.
So we will have to provide tools for that too.
Self-signed certificates are not easy to use (look at how Firefox 3 treats them).

We prefer to concentrate on the core functionality of SABnzbd.
(plus of course we would need to answer endless questions on the subject of SSL).

For those that really want/need https, there's always the solution of using something like stunnel to secure the connection to the web interface. Not exactly newbie stuff though, and it doesn't get around the inconvenience of using a self signed cerficate, but at least the application being secured doesn't have to know or support any ssl stuff itself, and the thing is available for both linux/unix and windoze.