🛡️ Prevent Chrome from redirecting your HTTP localhost to HTTPS
How to prevent chroem from redirecting your local service from http to https
3 months ago
Every time I tried setting up custom /etc/hosts
for local development, chrome kept redirecting my service from HTTP to HTTPS.
Probably because there was already an existing website with the same hostname and SSL that I previously visited.
To fix that you need to go to chrome://net-internals/#hsts
and put your service's URL in the input located under the Delete domain security policies section. Click delete and voilà!

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