The Client API is still experimental and sometimes not user friendly. your web browser looking at ) may need to add an exception. You can turn on HTTPS, but due to technical complexities it will give itself a self-signed 'certificate', so the security is good but imperfect, and whatever is talking to it (e.g. your computer's web browser talking to your computer's hydrus), but not secure for transmission across the internet (e.g. By default, the Client API is HTTP, which means it is ok for communication on the same computer or across your home network (e.g. To test it is running all correct (and assuming you used the default port of 45869), try loading this: It will only be active while the client is open. only requests from the same computer will work) to start with. I recommend you not allow non-local connections (i.e. Go to services->manage services and give it a port to get it started. Enabling the API ¶īy default, the Client API is not turned on. The hydrus client now supports a very simple API so you can access it with external programs.

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