I’m relatively new to Plex and I’ve noticed if I right click on the system tray it opens my library in my browser to ‘127.0.0.1:32400/web/index.html’, but there’s also https://app.plex.tv/web/app which seems the same but is a secure connection. I really only use plex direct connected from my htpc to my tv for the user interface so wondering which is the preferable one to use and the difference?
The one shown at the ip address 127.0.0.1 (localhost) is a local copy to your server. This is only updated when you update PMS itself.
The https://app.plex.tv/web/app is host on the plex.tv servers, this may have incremental updates between server releases that you would not get using the local copy.
In my personal opinion, if you can use the hosted one it’s a better way to go.
So this is a necro-topic, but I noticed the other day that the web player on plex.tv has a way cooler interface on the “current activity” page than the one hosted on my plex server. I’ve been waiting awhile but updates to the PMS server have come and gone but this page doesn’t get updated.
I guess I can just use plex.tv and not use localhost, but are there any security concerns with that? Any extra info get passed up to the cloud that normally would not? Encrypted or not…
Does anyone know?
Thanks,
H
No and no.
The two apps have identical data flow. No matter where they are hosted.
The so-called “local” app version cannot be loaded securely because that would require a cryptographic security certificate, assigned to 127.0.0.1, which will never work.
