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Improving HTTPS on private networks (alexsci.com)

submitted 1 year ago by tripple@beehaw.org to c/cybersecurity@lemmy.ml

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[–] tripple@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, there's two approaches I'm using currently. When you register a subdomain you can choose either localhostcert.net or localcert.net. The former has an A record in the public DNS that points to 127.0.0.1. The latter has no public A records so you need to manage them yourself, possibly with a local DNS resolver like unbound.

[–] SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why (for what use cases) would one use the former? Browsers solve this by treating localhost as a secure context (i.e. no mixed content warnings etc.) even if you use plain http.