I’m basically running the tutorial version of an Elixir/Phoenix application. When I try to visit the app at http://[app].fly.dev, it automatically redirects to https://[app].fly.dev. This is ideal, of course, but I don’t understand why. I don’t have force_ssl: ... set in my Phoenix Endpoint config.…

This is a feature of .dev TLD: [image] Chrome & Firefox now force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS tl;dr: Chrome 63 (out since December 2017), will force all domains ending on .dev (and . If you try it with curl, you shouldn’t get the redirect.

Why is *.fly.dev redirecting to https automatically?

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kurt October 2, 2021, 1:09am 2

This is a feature of .dev TLD:

If you try it with curl, you shouldn’t get the redirect.

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Automatic and simple HTTP to HTTPS redirection