Setting up HTTPS

This guide details the steps required to run the built-in web server of Echo over HTTPS rather than HTTP.

As an example, it is assumed you want to bind the HTTPS server to IP address 192.168.0.179 using port 8443.  Change these values to suit your own requirements.

Prerequisites

This guide presumes you have already installed your (valid) SSL certificate into the MY certificate store using the Local Machine account, since Echo runs as a system service in that context.

List SSL certificates

First, list all SSL certificates installed in the local machine account:

This produces a list as follows:

Take a note of the "Certificate Hash" of the SSL certificate you want to use. This is known as the thumbprint.

Remove any existing binding to that certificate for the endpoint you want to use:

netsh http delete sslcert ipport=192.168.0.179:8443

netsh http show sslcert

netsh http add sslcert ipport=192.168.0.179:8443 certhash=0011223344556677889900112233445566778899 appid={ecc39c98-e826-4009-9401-2a5c6e7babbc}