Calibre Companion and Basic Authentication

[chaley]

Originally Posted by bossanova808

I thought I had but apparently not when I renewed it. All good again. Although honestly why you preclude the use of self signed seems overkill to me....after all plenty of home servers would be run that way?

As far as I remember you are the only person who has tried a self-signed cert and asked us about it.

I strongly suspect that most people don't bother with SSL on home servers. CC prefers digest authentication over basic, calibre supports only digest, and setting up apache to use digest is straight-forward, so passing around clear text passwords can easily be avoided. Encrypting when transferring books is probably not necessary.

[bossanova808]

You would actually be wrong in your strong suspicion (as is easy to tell by any review of popular home serving scenarios/forums - homeservers with ssl are in fact very common, indeed there are turnkey virtual machines etc).

But the overall combination is of course likely to be small - server, calibre, calibre companion and ssl.

I use it (in general) for the same reason I have blinds on my windows - just for general privacy really. And why the certificate I can make myself is not equally valid to one bought from some random so-cal IT company in this context doesn't make much sense to me when I am simply trying to set up a simple tunnel from me to me.

But like I said, it's not important really and I thank you for your help. It is much appreciated.