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ndejong / pfsense_fauxapi

REST based API interface for pfSense 2.3.x and 2.4.x to facilitate devops
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Instruction Update #78

Closed Strider11 closed 3 years ago

Strider11 commented 3 years ago

I spent multiple days trying to figure out why I couldn't get this working. Only to find out that I had PFSense setup as HTTP access, when FauxAPI requires HTTPS. Could you add a note to the installation instructions to prevent some other n00b from making my same mistake?

ndejong commented 3 years ago

Hi - I note that you self-closed this however I'm interested in understanding if there is something more that should be added to the documentation.

There is a place in fauxApiPfsenseInterface::system_load_config() where FauxAPI does make a localhost call back to itself in order to cause pfSense to regenerate a cache.

I'm wondering if there is some kind of issue with the less-than-ideal exec() usage here.

Interested in how you solved this in the end.

Strider11 commented 3 years ago

Hi, thanks for the concern! I was really only interested in getting the data about my router into Home Assistant and was using this additional code to do so. https://github.com/JOHLC/pfSense-FauxAPI-ha I believe that was actually where the HTTPS issue came into play, which was why I closed this issue right away. Either way, as soon as I set my Pfsense install to use HTTPS instead of HTTP, everything connected and worked great for my needs.

Thank you for all your work!