Performing search on port other than 80

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andreas.eriksson
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Performing search on port other than 80

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Hello!

We are planning to use the Search Appliance (SBE) for our public web site. The http call to SBE is initiated from our web server, and the search result xml is then parsed on the web server and included into the results web page.

For security reasons, we would like to send the search requests (from the web server to SBE) on a port other than 80. Is this configurable somewhere in the appliance?

Kind regards,

Andreas

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Performing search on port other than 80

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If you go to Maintenance->System Wide Settings and enable https admin that will also enable https searching. Then change your url to "https://" instead of "http://" so that it will use encrypted port 443.
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Performing search on port other than 80

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No way of using any other obscure port? The firewall guys would like to use something completely different, like 2748 or something.
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No. I'm not sure what the point would be. Security by obscurity is effectively no security. If someone was interested in breaking your system it would take them about 3 seconds (literally) to scan and find the port you're using.

Using https actually encrypts the data so no sniffer can discover what's going across the connection.
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