IOS10 and HTTPS webui

[Iwakan]

Anyone is having problems when accessing router's admin webui using https with any IOS10 iDevice ? In my case I'm having problems like some elements not loading or blank pages that finally load by hitting F5 repeatedly. All works fine using any other device with any browser or using an iDevice with IOS9. With HTTP all works fine with IOS10.
Thank you!

 

[Iwakan]

More details:
IOS version: 10.0.2
Router Model: AC68u
Router firmware: Merlin 380.62_1

The strange thing is that if I connect to web admin page thru VPN all works fine but directly with any iOS iDevice with IOS10 not.
Can anyone try and share the result to know if is something related to my config?
Thank you!

 

[sfx2000]

Try clearing out the safari browser cache - Go to Settings, scroll down to Safari, in that settings page, scroll down to "Clear history and website data"...

 

[JemTheWire]

Anyone is having problems when accessing router's admin webui using https with any IOS10 iDevice ? In my case I'm having problems like some elements not loading or blank pages that finally load by hitting F5 repeatedly. All works fine using any other device with any browser or using an iDevice with IOS9. With HTTP all works fine with IOS10.
Thank you!

Yes I am too. I have cleared Safari cache to. It happens on both my iPad Pro and iPhone 6s running iOS 10.1 beta 4 but it also happened when I was running iOS 10.0.2.

 

[Iwakan]

I cleared the cache too with same behavior. So now the questions are... it's an Apple or Asus bug? Is stock firmware also affected? What is really crazy as I said is that if I access to the admin webui thru the VPN there's no problem. Hard to explain...

Maybe the URL displayed when login page shows randomly blank can give someone an idea of what's happening: https://routeraddress:1234/Main_Login.asp?error_status=1&page=index.asp&lock_time=0

 

[sfx2000]

Unfortunately I think it's too late to flash back to IOS9.5.3 - for what it is worth, I think this is more of a safari issue than Asus's HTTP implementation at this point...

10.1 is around the corner, my guess is in the next couple of weeks - I suppose the other option would be to use the Asus App instead if one doesn't have access to a desktop PC/Mac/Linux to manage the WebGUI.

One could try Chrome I suppose -- which is an option, but it still uses safari and webkit on the backend, so that might be just as useful as safari is now.

 

[Iwakan]

Unfortunately I think it's too late to flash back to IOS9.5.3 - for what it is worth, I think this is more of a safari issue than Asus's HTTP implementation at this point...

10.1 is around the corner, my guess is in the next couple of weeks - I suppose the other option would be to use the Asus App instead if one doesn't have access to a desktop PC/Mac/Linux to manage the WebGUI.

One could try Chrome I suppose -- which is an option, but it still uses safari and webkit on the backend, so that might be just as useful as safari is now.

You are right. Same result with Chrome and Firefox :-(

 

[heysoundude]

have you tried Opera or brave?

 

[Iwakan]

have you tried Opera or brave?

Not yet but I will try. iOS 10.1 released yesterday does not resolve the problem.

 

[heysoundude]

I find those 2 browsers to be considerably, significantly snappier than Safari, Chrome and Firefox on my iphone 6 running current ios...in Opera's case it may be the VPN; in brave's, it may be their suite of "shields".

 

[sfx2000]

I find those 2 browsers to be considerably, significantly snappier than Safari, Chrome and Firefox on my iphone 6 running current ios...in Opera's case it may be the VPN; in brave's, it may be their suite of "shields".

Funny - noticed the same thing, but what really odd is they are all front-ends for Apple's WebKit (they don't allow alternate browser engines on the back-end) - so I wouldn't be really stunned if all the browsers work the same...

WebKit, however, is a good engine, better than most actually, so it might be something odd with the javascript inside the Asus WebGUI code...

 

[Iwakan]

Funny - noticed the same thing, but what really odd is they are all front-ends for Apple's WebKit (they don't allow alternate browser engines on the back-end) - so I wouldn't be really stunned if all the browsers work the same...

WebKit, however, is a good engine, better than most actually, so it might be something odd with the javascript inside the Asus WebGUI code...

I think that the problem is in Safari's side with iOS 10. Asus WebGUI works fine with iOS 9

 

[heysoundude]

I think that the problem is in Safari's side with iOS 10.

that could be the case for sure, and it has happened before when making updates to any of their OSes...but that just means Apple is looking for the problem so they can re-write things and have a "major update" release when they have it sorted out for the "oh look...shiny!" crowd

 

[sfx2000]

I think that the problem is in Safari's side with iOS 10. Asus WebGUI works fine with iOS 9

They did quite a few changes under the hood - and one of those was a bit step up in Javascript (aka ECMA Script), so it could be there. Older Javascript (and CSS, fwiw) functions have been deprecated for some time, and perhaps there's something in the WebGUI that's calling funcs that no longer exist...

There are developer options to debug, but that does require Safari running on a Mac in developer mode, which is not very useful for folks that do not have a Mac :|

 

[Zirescu]

I'm wondering if it's related to the certificate because if I don't install it under Safari on the Mac the UI doesn't load properly. Ibend up having to close out Safari, start it again and then when I get the prompt with the certificate I need to install it and then the UI responds.