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Improving HTTPS on private networks (alexsci.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why (for what use cases) would one use the former? Browsers solve this by treating localhost as a secure context (i.e. no mixed content warnings etc.) even if you use plain http.