Clearing HSTS on localhost

I use a few tools that create local web server: vim instant markdown hugo server These normally work well. I also regularly will use a tunnel to a host on another network, such as accessing an embedded management interface of a device on an isolated network: desktop:~$ ssh -L 8443:device:443 bastion bastion:~$ The service on the remote network device is now available locally via https://localhost:443/. Unfortunately, when I do this, my local browser will store these HSTS settings for the domain (localhost, in this case) and complain/fail when one of the above-listed tools goes to a non-HTTPS URL on localhost, such as http://localhost:8090 for instant-markdown. ...

June 30, 2021 · 1 min · Jason Lavoie