Prevent Chrome from redirecting your HTTP localhost to HTTPS

How to prevent chroem from redirecting your local service from http to https

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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Published on February 21, 2023 1 min read