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wolttamtoday at 5:08 PM1 replyview on HN

Browsers consider ‘localhost’ a secure context without needing https

For local /network/ development, maybe, but you’d probably be doing awkward hairpin natting at your router.


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trevetoday at 5:11 PM

it's nice to be able to use https locally if you're doing things with HTTP/2 specifically.