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This a million times. Imagine how much less annoying e.g. syncthing UI would be!

(Granted programs can sort of do this with TCP sockets too, at lwast on Linux: read from /proc/net/tcp/somepathicantremember and use that to find out the U credentials of the client currently connected to your server...)



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>Imagine how much less annoying e.g. syncthing UI would be!

Assuming you mean the local web app needing an self-signed certificate...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Secure...

>Note: Firefox 84 and later support http://localhost and http://*.localhost URLs as trustworthy origins (earlier versions did not, because localhost was not guaranteed to map to a local/loopback address).

So if syncthing is reachable on a port on localhost you can just switch https off.


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