[solved] What does "HTTPS box cert auth" do & hostname max. chars?

[exprimo]

Hi all

To my understanding, with disabeling “HTTPS box cert auth” the boxes do no longer need to authenticate to use the API. Is that correct?
Does that mean, with this setting disabled, i can put the teddycloud API behind a reverse proxy and terminate ssl at the reverse proxy and forward API requests to some random configured port like 4443, which is not an ssl port?

Bonus question: why should the hostname be max. 13 chars? Longer names work fine in my case.

Cheers,
Michael

[henryk]

@exprimo

To my understanding, with disabeling “HTTPS box cert auth” the boxes do no longer need to authenticate to use the API. Is that correct?
Does that mean, with this setting disabled, i can put the teddycloud API behind a reverse proxy and terminate ssl at the reverse proxy and forward API requests to some random configured port like 4443, which is not an ssl port?

No.

It’s just a basic check if the connecting box is one of the already known boxes iirc.
Especially happens this after the box already connected to teddycloud and the request is already in processing.

[henryk]

@exprimo

Bonus question: why should the hostname be max. 13 chars? Longer names work fine in my case.

If you have an esp32 box then this limit can be exceeded. In case of cc3200 not.