By supporting HTTP and in particular HTTPS, downloads of firmware, device configurations or scripts can also be used by LANCOM devices for automated processes (e.g. self-provisioning) that source files from the Internet. In practice it is far simpler to provide a cental HTTPS server with a unique Internet address (URI) than a comparable TFTP server, and an existing Web server can be modified to offer this function.
A certificate used optionally for the HTTPS server is uploaded by WEBconfig to the device as the SSL root CA certificate:
