Openfire http-bind

Question

How can we connect to Openfire using secured http-bind (port 7443 by default)?

Answer 1

You need a client that support Bosh with https. Pidgin is one such client.

I am able to connect using pidgin and setting the bosh path as https://hostname:7443/http-bind

Answer 2

Under the Openfire admin console you will need to enable http-bind in order to utilize it. At this point you can also configure the port which it runs under.