tehmasta / secure-localhost

Proxy your specified localhost port to HTTPS, with automatic certificate installation.

secure-localhost 🔒

Proxy your specified localhost port to HTTPS, with automatic certificate installation.

Why?

• You're developing locally and stuck with SameSite: None cookie problem
• You don't want to proxy your dev to external servers
• You just wish you could use HTTPS on your localhost

Start

Using npx from Node.JS allows you to run NPM binaries without having them installed first.

Forward port 443 (HTTPS default port) to 80 with HTTPS:

$ npx secure-localhost

Forward port 443 to 8000 (pass it to args) with HTTPS:

$ npx secure-localhost 8000

In Windows, for the first launch, you'll asked for a prompt to install the HTTPS certificate.

The certificate is saved to ~/.certs/secure-localhost-server.crt and ~/.certs/secure-localhost-server.key

Caveat

• Only support Windows for first installation (UNIX users: help us!)
• Requires openssh to be installed/available on CLI