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Show HN: Local development with .local domains and HTTPS

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Post by jarekceborski »

Hi HN! I'm Jarek, and I've built this tool that allows publishing .local domains on the local network using mDNS.

It also has a reverse proxy that handles HTTPS termination and port forwarding.

I'm working on adding more features, like an index page with all available domains or allowing proxy redirects, so you could redirect from HTTP to HTTPS.

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

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Re: Show HN: Local development with .local domains and HTTPS

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Post by capableweb »

Looks like an interesting project. What I guess is not really clear is why you'd want to do TLS for local only connections? Are the services published with the .local domain accessible from outside as well so it's like a ngrok alternative?

I'm pretty sure I'm misunderstanding the value-add of having TLS for localhost connections...

Re: Show HN: Local development with .local domains and HTTPS

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Post by plorntus »

capableweb wrote: post #6

Looks like an interesting project. What I guess is not really clear is why you'd want to do TLS for local only connections? Are the services published with the .local domain accessible from outside as well so it's like a ngrok alternative? I'm pretty sure I'm misunderstanding the value-add of having TLS for localhost connections...

Certain browser features/apis are only available when in a secure context https://www.digicert.com/blog/https-only-features-in-browser... so I imagine this might be a reason you would want it.

That being said I don't know why you would pay for an application that does this but I guess I'm not the target market.

Re: Show HN: Local development with .local domains and HTTPS

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Post by mcny »

capableweb wrote: post #6

Looks like an interesting project. What I guess is not really clear is why you'd want to do TLS for local only connections? Are the services published with the .local domain accessible from outside as well so it's like a ngrok alternative? I'm pretty sure I'm misunderstanding the value-add of having TLS for localhost connections...

> I'm pretty sure I'm misunderstanding the value-add of having TLS for localhost connections...

It often feels like the noose is tightening tbh. There are things that contemporary "evergreen" web browsers just flat out refuse to do without https.

I think this is where they document this... https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/prefer-secur...

which I got from this stack overflow answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/34161385

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