Thread: Kobo/Calibre password in the clear issue
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Old 05-14-2020, 06:57 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
I'm afraid its not going to happen. The server is designed to work with non-browser based clients as wel, such as OPDS readers, which means it has to use http auth rather than html login forms. And note that if you use http rather than https login forms are no more secure than http auth. If you setup https then both are equally secure.
Thanks for the reply. I guess https is my best solution then.

Do I need to install OpenSSL into my Apache2 installation on my Mac, then point Calibre to the SSL certificate to enable https? Is there a tutorial online that can step me through some of those steps? Thanks.

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