In detail, yes the underlying network routing on your device will route the target it to the right network, which means it goes through the tailscale encryption

In detail, yes the underlying network routing on your device will route the target it to the right network, which means it goes through the tailscale encryption. In practice though - you don't have to worry about any of this! These are the steps: * Create a tailscale account (there's a good free plan) * Set up server. Give it a hostname (I'll use "mypi" in this example) * Set up your web service on server - check you can get to it locally (e.g. connected by wire or just on http://localhost http://localhost on that computer) * Install tailscale on your server, and log in to your tailscale account (tailscale login and follow prompts) * Install tailscale on your phone/laptop. Log into to tailscale * On your phone/laptop go to http://mypi http://mypi and it should Just Work!