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For security and privacy reasons it is absolutely necessary to use the secure socket layer transport protocol or HTTPS with the HIPAAsuite RealTime Server. This mechanism guarantees that the packets that are transported between provider and payer are uniquely encrypted and nobody and break-in and steal information. HTTPS is widely used and accepted.

But sometimes for debugging reasons it is very inconvenient to have only garbled nonsense in the packets that travel between the server and client. The HIPAAsuite RealTime Server has for this reason an option to use an unsecured, straight HTTP port. This is an option and has to be turned on in the configuration window. The test port uses the same endpoints as its secure counterpart but is accessed with http:// instead of https://