Register to handle magnet links on WebUi with NO HTTPS

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vra1974

Register to handle magnet links on WebUi with NO HTTPS

Post by vra1974 »

In the past I could register to handle magnet links on the WebUi in Chrome with no problem.

I had to reinstall QbitTorrent (qBittorrent v4.2.1 (64-bit) )

And now I cant because it says "To use this feature, the WebUI needs to be accessed over HTTPS"

I installed the certificates but then the WebUi does not work.

I dont want to mess with Https and SSL and complicated things. Just want QbitTorrent to be able to handle the registering of magnet links over chrome on the WebUi remote interface.

Or a way to manually registering the Qbittorrent address on chrome.

Thanks a lot in advance!
adamm

Re: Register to handle magnet links on WebUi with NO HTTPS

Post by adamm »

i just switched laptops and can't get the magnet link to work on chrome or new edge because both are based on the chrominium platform...

i'm having the same issues. Were you able to find a fix or solutions?

Thanks
smoothsix

Re: Register to handle magnet links on WebUi with NO HTTPS

Post by smoothsix »

Yeah, this is a fairly awful "feature". Folks may not realize that a simple change for one user (say, interactively, on a local machine) can compound with other environmental difficulties for a very undesirable experience.

I'm on hour 5 of trying to get a torrent client working on my NAS with a private tracker and cookies and such, all in Docker containers.

I just came to qTorrent in the past 90 minutes or so, because the feature set ticked all the boxes. So, setup a new container, forward the right ports, figure out how to deal with RSS feeds and regex in a new platform, etc.

Well, because it's in a container, it's sort of important to be clear about what port I'll need for the https web UI. That port will have to be forwarded manually, if it ever works. The logs should indicate why https setup failed (was it permissions on the key/cert files? ownership? some other config box I missed?). When it says "failing back to http", it probably should, rather than require me to mount up my config directory on a system that actually *had* an editor (the docker container does not). And track down and kill the process to restart the webserver in http mode.

Or, you know, just let users decide if they're okay not using HTTPS for the web UI (that's almost always run locally anywy) and save everyone a lot of effort.
mirddes

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Post by mirddes »

smoothsix wrote: Sat Dec 12, 2020 11:10 pm Or, you know, just let users decide if they're okay not using HTTPS for the web UI (that's almost always run locally anywy) and save everyone a lot of effort.
PLEASE

i just got qbittorrent running as a service with nssm and the 50! steps required to get something simple working BECAUSE SECURITY is absolute nonsense.
bmfrosty

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Post by bmfrosty »

Came here specifically for this. I'd love an override for this behaviour as I only use this internally on my LAN. It's not great, but I understand why it's there. It's just not necessary in every situation.

Out of curiosity, would this still be the behaviour if I were to put this behind nginx and gave nginx a cert through letsencrypt? I think to do that I'd have to give nginx a public IP too. Using 4.3.9 in a docker container on unraid.

Edit: My workaround has been this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... fdghcmenci
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