Networking

By it is very nature, Mirth® Connect is an application that typically has a lot of inbound and outbound connections. It is up to you (or your IT staff) to decide how lenient or strict you want your firewall to be. Typically all inbound access is denied by default, and specific IP/port rules are added for specific channels. Outbound connectivity is less of a concern, and typically all outbound connections are allowed.

By default, Mirth® Connect listens on two ports: 8080 and 8443. These ports are used by the web server that serves up the main launch page, as well as API access (which the Administrator GUI and CLI use). The specific ports used can be configured in mirth.properties:

• http.port
• https.port

You can disable plain HTTP altogether by simply commenting out the "http.port" entry. This ensures that only secure HTTP (HTTPS) is used for all main web server traffic.