Introduction To Https - ZyXEL Communications Vantage RADIUS 50 User Manual

Vantage RADIUS User's Guide
7.1.2 System Timeout
There is a system timeout of five minutes (three hundred seconds) for either the console port or
telnet/web/FTP connections. Your Vantage RADIUS automatically logs you out if you do nothing in this
timeout period. See the REMOTE ACCESS screen to change the timeout period in the Idle Time Out
field.
7.2

Introduction to HTTPS

HTTPS (HyperText Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer, or HTTP over SSL) is a web protocol that
encrypts and decrypts web pages. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is an application-level protocol that enables
secure transactions of data by ensuring confidentiality (an unauthorized party cannot read the transferred
data), authentication (one party can identify the other party) and data integrity (you know if data has been
changed).
HTTPS on Vantage RADIUS is used so that you may securely access Vantage RADIUS using the web
configurator.
Please refer to the following figure.
1. HTTPS connection requests from an SSL-aware web browser go to port 443 (by default) on
Vantage RADIUS's WS (web server).
2. HTTP connection requests from a web browser go to port 80 (by default) on Vantage RADIUS's
WS (web server).
7-2 Management