Not loading over unsecure connection

orbitdb-archive / orbit

A distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS

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Not loading over unsecure connection #235

Closed layderv closed 4 years ago

layderv commented 6 years ago

http://orbit.chat does not work, while https://orbit.chat works properly as expected. The former remains stuck at "LOADING".

wildyeast commented 6 years ago

Can reproduce in Chromium 62: When I use insecure http, I get this error exactly. In Firefox 56 the app runs fine with either secure or insecure http.

aphelionz commented 4 years ago

I believe this is a "feature" of WebCrypto currently. Falling back to an HTTP-safe crypto lib is in discussion, but extremely non-trivial. Closing for now with the workaround being HTTPS