1345273 - Exclude warnings for local URLs with logins

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1337246

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Edo Karabas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20170302120751

Steps to reproduce:

Enter local URL address such as 192.168.1.1 (e.g. router default) in the URL bar.


Actual results:

Firefox displays a “This connection is not secure” message in username/password fields.


Expected results:

To not display such a message.
I personally think it is a pointless and a bit distracting. Does it even exist an option to have secure certificate for a local URL?

Comment 1

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

(In reply to Eddward from comment #0)
> I personally think it is a pointless and a bit distracting. Does it even
> exist an option to have secure certificate for a local URL?

Yes, you can get certificates for hostnames which happen to resolve to local addresses but use a real domain name as long as you can prove ownership of the domain.

You can also create a self-signed certificate and trust it in your browser to provide encryption over the wire.

You wouldn't be able to get a certificate trusted by browsers for a local IP range directly e.g. 192.168.1.1.