Disable Blocking of Bonjour (.local) Websites
I am trying to connect to a .local website, and LibreWolf says it can't connect to server (one of the worst UX error pages I've seen). Google and DDG are of no help, and I do not want to resort to using another browser for something that should be simple to disable.
I have added my domain to network.dns.localDomains and that did not appear to work. I have "DNS over HTTPS" disabled completely. I do not know what else to try.
Please help.
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Did you install librewolf via flatpak? Flatpak applications may have difficulty connecting to *.local domains due to sandboxing.
Did you add Firefox to System Settings | Privacy & Security | Local Network?
Yeah unfortunately that didn't change anything. I enabled it, and restarted LibreWolf and it still won't connect. Thing is, it keeps trying to upgrade the connection to HTTPS, so I disabled HTTPS-Only Mode and that won't even work. I'm open to other suggestions.
Have you tried another browser to confirm it's a browser issue and nothing else? I assume yes but you didn't specify so just want to make sure
These might be obvious things, but sometimes it helps to check the rudimentary topics.
Is the server reachable via its IP address for LibreWolf?
Are you able to ping the .local address from the terminal?
Those are fair questions. Yes, the mediacenter.local works in Chrome, and in the Terminal (both using ping and ssh); as well as connecting the the IP. LibreWolf is being too strict and disallowing me connecting to it. I believe it's because it keeps trying to upgrade to HTTPS even though I disabled that "feature".
ping mediacenter.localto see if your system DNS resolver can resolve the addresscurl -v mediacenter.localto see if the web server actually responds with HTTP data on port 80