# Difference between http.enabled and node.http.enabled

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-http-enabled-and-node-http-enabled/41232>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 8, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-http-enabled-and-node-http-enabled/41232 "2016-02-08T23:47:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![bdharrington7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bdharrington7/32/5515_2.png) [@bdharrington7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bdharrington7)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-http-enabled-and-node-http-enabled/41232/1 "2016-02-08T23:47:43Z")

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Hi community,

I've been trying to figure out what the difference is between the settings `http.enabled` and `node.http.enabled`.

Right now I have `http.enabled` set to false and `node.http.enabled` set to true for a master node, and I can't access it on 9200, so I know that setting `http.enabled` to false works as expected. I just can't seem to find if `node.http.enabled` is a valid setting and what it does (there are examples of it on the web but only as part of configuration file examples)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-http-enabled-and-node-http-enabled/41232/2 "2016-02-09T01:26:10Z")

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The latter may be an old setting, I cannot find reference to it in anything recent.

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**Author:** ![bdharrington7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bdharrington7/32/5515_2.png) [@bdharrington7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bdharrington7)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-http-enabled-and-node-http-enabled/41232/3 "2016-02-09T16:50:52Z")

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Cool, thanks for the information, I think I can safely remove that setting!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-http-enabled-and-node-http-enabled/41232/4 "2017-07-05T23:17:55Z")

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