Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68

Re:Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 by duchenne on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:26AM (#20399349)

Wihtout using any third party service, you could use an SSH tunnel, with autossh for automatic reconnections.

    autossh -L 2080:localhost:80 192.198.1.14

And then, you'll be able to visit your dev website on http://localhost:2080

Firefox will believe that your service is local, and will allow the activation of the camera and the microphone even though you do not use https.

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Re:Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 by throwamay1241 on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @04:42AM (#20400222)

Browsers have weird behaviors on localhost, such as allowing webcam and microphone on HTTP and iirc, permit cross-origin resource access which is blocked on less trusted domains.

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Re:Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68 by bzbarsky on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:51PM (#20443900)

> and iirc, permit cross-origin resource access

Firefox does not do that.

Safari has some behaviors along those lines last I checked.

I can't recall for Chrome whether it does or not.

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