tl;dr: .dev is now a legit TLD.
Chrome 63 redirects .dev domains to HTTPS via HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) header.
If you’re one of the developers like me, who uses .dev
domains for your own development, you’ll no longer be able to access your website in latest Chrome. In those cases, if you try to access http://yoursite.dev
, you will be redirected to https://yoursite.dev
.
What should we do?
A quick workaround would be to rename your .dev
sites to .test
or .localhost
. I recommend the second, as *.localhost
sites automatically open as 127.0.0.1. You don’t need to add site.code
to /etc/hosts
. So, if your site was site.dev
you should rename it to site.localhost
.
If you find this useful, please let me know, and I’ll post more tips.