ive tried to search and i was unable to see a thread talking about this.. i have opened up port 443 and it appears that the port is actually still closed. is this a known issue with a fix?
ok i went about answering my own question... via a sideways manner..
go to this. https://www.snbforums.com/threads/custom-firmware-build-for-r7800-v-1-0-2-60sf.48805/page-6
search for 443 and the second thread voxel exchanges with a person about a similarly phrased issues as mine..
Not being able to ssh into it from work i decided to try disabling remote management.
this did it!