Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default
I wish there was a solution for those of us who develop web interfaces for embedded products designed to live on LAN, often without any internet access and no well defined domain name.<p>I&#x27;m all for HTTPS everywhere but right now for my products it&#x27;s either: https with self-signed certificate, which basically makes any modern browser tell its user that they&#x27;re in a very imminent danger of violent death should they decide to proceed, or just go with good old HTTP but then you hit all sorts of limitations, and obviously zero security.<p>I wish there was a way to opt into a &quot;TOFU&quot; https mode for these use cases (which is how browser dealt with invalid HTTPS certificates for a long time), although I realize that doing that without compromising the security of the internet at large might be tricky.<p>If somebody has a solution, I&#x27;m all ears. As far as I can tell the &quot;solution&quot; employed by many IoT vendors is simply to mandate an internet connection and have you access your own LAN devices through the cloud, which is obviously a privacy nightmare. But it&#x27;s HTTPS so your browser will display a very reassuring padlock telling you all is fine!