I’m developing and distributing a desktop app that runs a localhost webserver. This desktop app responds to requests from a public facing website that runs on HTTPS (i.e uers’s web-browser makes requests directly to user’s desktop server app). Since browsers are beginning to forbid HTTP requests on …

I’d add some amendments to both options. For 1: Look into automating the CA installation. I would guess most OS have some sort of API for this (and for those that don’t, it’s probably as easy as adding a PEM file to some directory.) I would also look into name-constraining the root certificate to y…

Distributing or generating certificates as part of private apps running localhost servers

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Distributing or generating certificates as part of private apps running localhost servers

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