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0 pointsduchenne6y ago0 comments

Wihtout using any third party service, you could use an SSH tunnel, with autossh for automatic reconnections.

    autossh -L 2080:localhost:80 192.198.1.14

And then, you'll be able to visit your dev website on http://localhost:2080

Firefox will believe that your service is local, and will allow the activation of the camera and the microphone even though you do not use https.

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throwamay12416y ago

Browsers have weird behaviors on localhost, such as allowing webcam and microphone on HTTP and iirc, permit cross-origin resource access which is blocked on less trusted domains.

bzbarsky6y ago

> and iirc, permit cross-origin resource access

Firefox does not do that.

Safari has some behaviors along those lines last I checked.

I can't recall for Chrome whether it does or not.

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