private-network-access

Linked in the Private Network Access draft is a discussion which outlines some general points about HTTPS on local devices and participation of local devices on the web in general. It's interesting to read, even though the results seem rather bleak. https://github.com/wicg/private-network-access/issues/23

There are fantastic reasons why it should not be allowed on random local devices, unless the local device is configured with some sort of authentication... but the problem now is that total ban on accessing local devices from a secure web app is a serious choke point for anyone trying to develop something to control appliances outside the walled garden. Fascinating discussion here with a Plex dev expressing similar frustrations with the general direction of these context barriers... which in their case affects millions of users and threatens to pull down their entire platform. Their solution currently is bizarre; they actually have to hijack DNS resolution and issue SSL certs on the fly for each of their users' servers to allow their web app to connect to a local node. Not possible in my smaller corporate sphere. https://github.com/WICG/p