How to permanently exclude localhost from HSTS list in Google Chrome

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Bugs Bunny picture Bugs Bunny · Aug 16, 2016 · Viewed 14.9k times · Source

This is a followup question to Google Chrome redirecting localhost to https.

Does anyone know, how to permanently exclude localhost from HSTS list in Google Chrome?

Or, any other elegant solution that wouldn't require developer to visit chrome://net-internals/#hsts and delete localhost every time when switching from working on an HTTPS project to a different project on HTTP?

Answer

Sushant Pimple picture Sushant Pimple · Sep 23, 2016

You can follow the solution here.

When Google Chrome keeps redirecting your localhost Url from http://localhost to https://localhost, do the following:

  1. Open the Developer Tools panel (CTRL+SHIFT+I)
  2. Click and hold the reload icon
  3. A menu will open
  4. Choose the 3rd option from this menu (“Empty Cache and Hard Reload”)

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