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Re:You Can't Follow Me by pimterry on Thursday January 11, 2024 @08:46AM (#38952086)
> Browsers deal with this by considering localhost a "secure context"

Broadly yes, except Safari which still sometimes doesn't: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171934

(Not relevant to this case, but eugh it's a very annoying exception)

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Re:You Can't Follow Me by jefftk on Thursday January 11, 2024 @09:34AM (#38952673)
Yes, that's not great. But at least it doesn't bite you if you're running an all-localhost dev environment.
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