Requirements

Service dashboard

The following browsers are supported to use our dashboard and the documentation application:

Mozilla Firefox, latest ESR version
Google Chrome, latest stable version
Microsoft Edge, latest stable version (on Windows desktop operating systems)

HTTP based APIs

For HTTP based APIs:

HTTP 1.1 compatible client with TLS encryption support (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616)
Optional support for WebSockets (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455)
Optional support for Server-Sent Events (see https://www.w3.org/TR/2015/REC-eventsource-20150203/)

The configuration of the SSL/TLS layer has been limited to strong ciphers and protocols, for security reasons.

TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256

For example, the following cipher suites are considered weak and are therefore no longer supported:

TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

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Java client

Oracle Java SE 8 is required to use our things-client and the ditto-client.