pfSense

Scott Phillips wrote:

I updated pfsense to use secure socket that utilizes port 443 to login as the adminstrator. Upon attempting to login to pfsense post change, I get "The browser must support cookies to login". I allow cookies within the browser, however I cannot get past this message. I've rebooted the browser and have I've attempted this in firefox, safari, chrome to NO avail. Hoping someone can help me out.

I'm having this problem after I restored the web_gui to http from the console using assign IP address to interface. I'm unable to access my pfsense from any browser.

Does the same thing happen with an incognito/private mode browser session that has never visited that firewall before?

When HTTPS is enabled, pfSense sends a secure cookie, and if the browser stores that, it may refuse to process that cookie over HTTP in the future. You may have to manually delete cookies for the firewall host from your browser to continue.

I'm not sure there is anything the firewall itself can do about that. Similar issues can happen with cached HSTS settings.

I'm getting affected by this as well, under similar circumstances.

Jim Pingle wrote:

Does the same thing happen with an incognito/private mode browser session that has never visited that firewall before?

Yes. Incognito mode, as well as using a different browser that's never seen the URL before, pops up the same message.

I have the same problem under different circumstances. I bought a new firewall to upgrade hardware. Pfsense web ui worked fine but then I restored my config from the old firewall via the webui. The old firewall is setup https to port 8888. After the restore, on the new firewall I get the error "The browser must support cookies to login."