Assistant/Leo AI ollama support should allow non-localhost http connections

[dictvm]

Platforms

all

Description

Since about July Brave Assistant/Leo AI supports setting up selfhosted Ollama to use a broad selection of open source models. Currently users cannot configure Ollama without https unless it is running on localhost.

I would appreciate allowing ollama API access via plaintext http for the following networks:

RFC1918:

• 10.0.0.0/8
• 172.16.0.0/12
• 192.168.0.0/16

RFC6598:

• 100.64.0.0/10

I’m using tailscale to access my ollama server remotely. I don’t want to deal with having a publicly available domain to get a Letsencrypt certificate since tailscale is already setting up an encrypted Wireguard tunnel between my devices.

Even without tailscale or similar tunneling software, I think a warning about using http over insecure networks should suffice. Someone running Ollama most likely is at least somewhat technically capable.

[Secris]

I have the exact same setup (local ollama server and tailscale vpn on all my devices) and would also like this feature.

[darkitechtor]

+1 I would appreciate it too if you added this feature! I have the same setup as other users, btw.

[jonathansampson]

Coming soon: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/26475