# Display connection security

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-connection-security/6454>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 13, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-connection-security/6454 "2013-05-13T16:34:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Pat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@Pat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Pat)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-connection-security/6454/1 "2013-05-13T16:34:11Z")

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It would be nice to be able to see/determine what type of connection clients are using to connect to the gateway, secured or unsecured. It would be nice if the gateway sessions page showed the connection type for each client. It would also be good if I could get that information from within the client application, that way I could indicate to the user whether their session was secure or not.

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**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-connection-security/6454/2 "2013-05-22T21:29:38Z")

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I though that was determined by a gateway setting. If set to use https, then all client connections would be secure.

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**Author:** ![Pat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@Pat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Pat)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-connection-security/6454/3 "2013-05-23T01:50:51Z")

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The gateway setting ‘Use SSL’ forces all clients to use SSL, if you don’t have it enabled your clients can still use SSL if they launch the application from the gateway’s HTTPS page. So it is possible to have clients communicating with the gateway secured and unsecured at the same time.

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**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-connection-security/6454/4 "2013-05-24T18:05:02Z")

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Something new I learned today.