xlenam / hello-world-https-mkcert

This is an example of flask web server that deliver and html file over https in localhost without a selfsign certificate. This method avoid to accept the certificate because the certificate is signed by the CA of the machine.

Example Flask web server over https in localhost using mkcert

This is an example of flask web server taht deliver and html file over https in localhost without a selfsign certificate. This method avoid to accept the certificate because the certificate is signed by the CA of the machine.

Getting Started

Generate the foo.pem and foo-key.pem file with mkcert tool and start the server:

pip install -r requeriments.txt
python app.py

And open the example https://localhost:5000/

Prerequisites

You need to generate the certificate and add to your CA with the mkcert utility

Installing Windows

choco install mkcert
mkcert -install
mkcert localhost 127.0.0.1 ::1
//Copy the generated files to the example root folder

Installing Linux

sudo apt install libnss3-tools
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/install/master/install.sh)"
PATH=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/:$PATH
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew install mkcert
mkcert -install
mkcert localhost 127.0.0.1 ::1

For more information related to mkcert tool: https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert