Third-Party Signed SSL Certificate for localhost or 127.0.0.1?

localhost You will never be issued a proper https cert for localhost. It is strictly forbidden. Because reasons. In short: Misconfigured devices actually exist, in the wild, that wait for lookups before resolving localhost from /etc/hosts If a router defines localhost.foo.local it may cause localhost to resolve incorrectly (you’ve probably seen this class of error … Read more