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    From Cyberfarer@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 13 07:56:57 2021
    Greetings

    I have an internal application running on a private LAN IP. Is there a way to have Firefox treat that IP as safe in the same way as localhost?

    I have tried a number of options but FF appears to be suppressing scripts on the client.

    Thank you.

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  • From Dave Royal@21:1/5 to Cyberfarer on Sat Mar 13 10:08:06 2021
    Cyberfarer <cyberfarer@gmail.com> wrote:
    Greetings

    I have an internal application running on a private LAN IP. Is there a way to have Firefox treat that IP as safe in the same way as localhost?

    I have tried a number of options but FF appears to be suppressing scripts on the client.

    Do you mean you're running a webserver on a host on the local LAN. I do
    that: what's the problem?

    What do you mean by 'safe'. In what way does your Firefox treat a local
    IP address differently?

    By 'scripts on the client' do you mean scripts within the pages served
    by your local host, or what?

    What OS and version of Firefox?
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  • From Cyberfarer@21:1/5 to Dave Royal on Sat Mar 13 13:11:40 2021
    On Saturday, 13 March 2021 at 11:16:09 UTC-5, Dave Royal wrote:
    wrote:
    Greetings

    I have an internal application running on a private LAN IP. Is there a way to have Firefox treat that IP as safe in the same way as localhost?

    I have tried a number of options but FF appears to be suppressing scripts on the client.

    Do you mean you're running a webserver on a host on the local LAN. I do
    that: what's the problem?

    What do you mean by 'safe'. In what way does your Firefox treat a local
    IP address differently?

    By 'scripts on the client' do you mean scripts within the pages served
    by your local host, or what?

    What OS and version of Firefox?
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    According to Mozilla:
    "Locally-delivered resources such as those with http://127.0.0.1 URLs, http://localhost and http://*.localhost URLs (e.g. http://dev.whatever.localhost/), and file:// URLs are also considered to have been delivered securely."

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Secure_Contexts#when_is_a_context_considered_secure

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Cyberfarer on Sun Mar 14 07:57:45 2021
    Cyberfarer wrote:

    According to Mozilla: "Locally-delivered resources such as those
    with http://127.0.0.1 URLs, http://localhost and http://*.localhost
    URLs (e.g. http://dev.whatever.localhost/), and file:// URLs are also considered to have been delivered securely."

    But does "being considered delivered securely" have any impact on
    whether a page can run scripts? I don't think so, any site (even
    without TLS) can run scripts

    Is your script trying to do anything "special"?

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  • From Brian Gregory@21:1/5 to Cyberfarer on Sun Mar 14 09:36:34 2021
    On 13/03/2021 15:56, Cyberfarer wrote:
    Greetings

    I have an internal application running on a private LAN IP. Is there a way to have Firefox treat that IP as safe in the same way as localhost?

    I have tried a number of options but FF appears to be suppressing scripts on the client.

    Thank you.


    Something in Enhanced Tracking Protection maybe.
    I don't remember doing anything special so that my devices with local
    addresses (such as the web interface of my router) can run scripts in
    Firefox, and they can and do.

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    Brian Gregory (in England).

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  • From Dave Royal@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 14 07:37:13 2021
    On 13 Mar 2021 13:11:40 -0800 (PST) Cyberfarer wrote:
    [On Saturday, 13 March 2021 at 11:16:09 UTC-5, Dave Royal wrote:]

    According to Mozilla:
    "Locally-delivered resources such as those with http://127.0.0.1 URLs, >http://localhost and http://*.localhost URLs (e.g. >http://dev.whatever.localhost/), and file:// URLs are also considered to have >been delivered securely."


    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Secure_Contexts#when_is_a_context_considered_secure

    OK. You're trying to avoid using https?
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