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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (47 children)

Browsers barf at non https now. What are we supposed to do about certificates?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (10 children)

If you mean properly signed certificates (as opposed to self-signed) you'll need a domain name, and you'll need your LAN DNS server to resolve a made-up subdomain like lan.domain.com. With that you can get a wildcard Let's Encrypt certificate for *.lan.domain.com and all your https://whatever.lan.domain.com URLs will work normally in any browser (for as long as you're on the LAN).

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Right, main point of my comment is that .internal is harder to use that it immediately sounds. I don't even know how to install a new CA root into Android Firefox. Maybe there is a way to do it, but it is pretty limited compared to the desktop version.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

You can't install a root CA in Firefox for android.

You have to install the cert in android and set Firefox to use the android truststore.

You have to go in Firefox settings>about Firefox and tap the Firefox logo for a few times. You then have a hidden menu where you can set Firefox to not use its internal trust store.

You then have to live with a permanent warning in androids quick setting that your traffic might be captured because of the root ca you installed.

It does work, but it sucks.

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