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1.5 Prerequisites/Preconditions

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The IP-HTTPS Protocol requires IPv6 and either HTTP or HTTPS. If HTTPS is used, TLS/SSL is also required for operation.

IP-HTTPS supports both HTTP and HTTPS transports. Unless otherwise noted, the rest of this document uses the term "HTTPS" to also refer to operation over HTTP.

When the transport is HTTPS (as opposed to HTTP), the IP-HTTPS Protocol requires a certificate to be installed on each client and server machine. It also requires the client and the server to be configured with the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the server.

The HTTPS connection can be set up over an IPv4 or an IPv6 network.