3 ms·

I don't really agree. Firefox itself could run a free Certificate Authority if it ever came to that. Your scenario is much less likely, and much more easily fix

I don't really agree. Firefox itself could run a free Certificate Authority if it ever came to that. Your scenario is much less likely, and much more easily fixable than the status quo where most websites don't bother exposing their site over HTTPS, creating huge security and privacy risks for consumers of said sites. There is absolutely no reason not to have your site functioning over HTTPs these days, except negligence.

tetris11 6y ago
try running `python3 http.server 8080` on a safe directory on your laptop, and see if you can easily access a file from it from your mobile. With Firefox for Android, it doesn't permit you to connect a machine on your own LAN, even if you try to add an exception. With stock browser it does. I'm sure there are better ways to serve a file between machine and phone, but that python snippet was my easiest goto. No more
- fgonzag 6y ago
  wouldn't it be much easier to use scp for that? there are plenty of android clients, and plenty of windows servers. I just actually use synced storage (Synology Drive from a Synology NAS), so I would probably use a Dropbox like service for that functionality. There's an app called droid transfer that basically does what you did with python (setup a server and have a simple download client), and there's also wireless ADB (which will require you to use the USB cable for the initial setup)
  - s_gourichon 6y ago
    I think the point is e.g. being able to quickly share a file with a smartphone nearby, that is not yours. Not telling your co-workers to install on their phones some app foreign to them.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
  ? I just tried it and it works fine. Firefox 84.1.1 on Android, connect to 192.168.x.y:8080 and it comes up and shows me a directory listing that I can navigate and open files from. (you missed the -m, BTW; it's `python3 -m http.server 8080`)
- jackewiehose 6y ago
  > try running `python3 http.server 8080` on a safe directory on your laptop, and see if you can easily access a file from it from your mobile Works without a problem (I just tried python -m SimpleHTTPServer). You just have to type out the http://-part http://-part explicitly. Wow that would be annoying if they dropped http completly.
jackewiehose 6y ago
> Firefox itself could run a free Certificate Authority if it ever came to that how would that be any better?

tetris11 6y ago

try running `python3 http.server 8080` on a safe directory on your laptop, and see if you can easily access a file from it from your mobile. With Firefox for Android, it doesn't permit you to connect a machine on your own LAN, even if you try to add an exception. With stock browser it does. I'm sure there are better ways to serve a file between machine and phone, but that python snippet was my easiest goto. No more

fgonzag 6y ago
wouldn't it be much easier to use scp for that? there are plenty of android clients, and plenty of windows servers. I just actually use synced storage (Synology Drive from a Synology NAS), so I would probably use a Dropbox like service for that functionality. There's an app called droid transfer that basically does what you did with python (setup a server and have a simple download client), and there's also wireless ADB (which will require you to use the USB cable for the initial setup)
- s_gourichon 6y ago
  I think the point is e.g. being able to quickly share a file with a smartphone nearby, that is not yours. Not telling your co-workers to install on their phones some app foreign to them.
yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
? I just tried it and it works fine. Firefox 84.1.1 on Android, connect to 192.168.x.y:8080 and it comes up and shows me a directory listing that I can navigate and open files from. (you missed the -m, BTW; it's `python3 -m http.server 8080`)
jackewiehose 6y ago
> try running `python3 http.server 8080` on a safe directory on your laptop, and see if you can easily access a file from it from your mobile Works without a problem (I just tried python -m SimpleHTTPServer). You just have to type out the http://-part http://-part explicitly. Wow that would be annoying if they dropped http completly.

jackewiehose 6y ago

> Firefox itself could run a free Certificate Authority if it ever came to that how would that be any better?