Make web demo secure because of Chrome's deprecation of powerful features on insecure origins

[bamos]

Original mailing list post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cmu-openface/TNZR_QVR8Nc

When I try to use the web demo connecting to a Docker container, I get the following message:

getUserMedia() no longer works on insecure origins. To use this feature, you should consider switching your application to a secure origin, such as HTTPS. See https://goo.gl/rStTGz for more details.

They suggest three workarounds:

1. localhost is treated as a secure origin over HTTP, so if you're able to run your server from localhost, you should be able to test the feature on that server.
2. You can run chrome with the --unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure="example.com" flag (replacing "example.com" with the origin you actually want to test), which will treat that origin as secure for this session. Note that you also need to include the --user-data-dir=/test/only/profile/dir to create a fresh testing profile for the flag to work.
3. Use secure protocols

[barrettclark]

I've generated the certs for https and wss connections so that I could make calls on the same network from different computers (similar to docker on OS X), but self-signed certs did not appear to be good enough for the getUserMedia() calls. I'll post an update if I chase this down further.

[Tom-Neverwinter]

https://www.kirupa.com/html5/accessing_your_webcam_in_html5.htm This may be a good place to start

[SalehAly]

Hey,

I have found another solution to the getUserMedia issue on OSX from this answer here. where you can run the demo from your localhost:8000

you can execute this commands from your terminal which adds a VirtualBox port forward to map a port on the docker host to your local machine

vboxmanage controlvm default natpf1 "nameformapping,tcp,,8000,,8000"
vboxmanage controlvm default natpf1 "nameformapping2,tcp,,9000,,9000"

Or you can open VirtualBox

1- Click on your docker machine 
2- Go To Settings -> Network -> Port Forwarding
3- add the port mapping rules 

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