1464998 - Add allow-insecure-localhost option to be able to test sites locally without https

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1409841

(Core :: Security, enhancement)

Description

[Alex Art]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Build ID: 20180523133746

Steps to reproduce:

enter http://localhost.localdomain (where the site being in development is located)


Actual results:

 A Geolocation request can only be fulfilled in a secure context


Expected results:

With the above-mentioned settings option it should be possible to bypass security restriction on local-host for the purpose of development.

Comment 1

[Damira Akh]

Hi Alex, 
Could you please provide me with public test page and the detailed steps to reproduce this issue?
Thank you.

Comment 2

[Alex Art]

Hi, Damira.
I can't provide you with a page because the idea of this request is to add option to Firefox to be able to ignore the warnings and restriction for not secure localhost connections.
To be able to develop and test sites locally.