Aastra Telecom 53I, 57I CT, 55I manual Aastra Web UI, HTTP/HTTPS Support

Configuration Interface Methods

Configuration Methods

Aastra Web UI

An administrator can setup and configure the IP phone using the Aastra Web UI. The Aastra Web UI supports Internet Explorer and Gecko engine-based browsers like Firefox, Mozilla or Netscape.

HTTP/HTTPS Support

The Aastra Web UI supports both Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer (HTTPS) client and server protocols.

HTTP is the set of rules for transferring files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia files) over the Internet. When you open your Web browser, you are indirectly making use of HTTP. HTTP is an application protocol that runs on top of the TCP/IP suite of protocols (the foundation protocols for the Internet).

HTTPS is a Web protocol that encrypts and decrypts user page requests as well as the pages that are returned by the Web server. HTTPS uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) as a sublayer under its regular HTTP application layering. SSL is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet. It uses a 40-bit key size for the RC4 stream encryption algorithm, which is considered an adequate degree of encryption for commercial exchange. TLS is a protocol that ensures privacy between communicating applications and their users on the Internet. When a server and client communicate, TLS ensures that no third party may eavesdrop or tamper with any message. TLS is the successor to SSL.

Note: HTTPS uses port 443 instead of HTTP port 80 in its interactions with the TCP/IP lower layer.

Configuration Interface Methods

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