Whitelist for Chrome “Your Connection is Not Private”

Question

We use unsigned SSL certificates for local development, so we frequently see the "Your Connection is Not Private" message in Chrome. We bypass it by proceeding via the options, but this only lasts a few days or so before the message returns. Is there a way to either whitelist certain domains or have certain certificates always excepted?

I believe chrome://flags/ used to have a place to set "Remember decisions to proceed through SSL errors for a specified length of time" but that is no longer available.

Solution 1

The best (and only) solution that I have found is to type the passphrase thisisunsafe as soon as you see the “Your Connection is Not Private” message. We have servers on an internal LAN where we regularly get blocked by Chrome. This passphrase is the only way to get to them.

Solution 2

In chrome://flags/ there's a new option named Allow invalid certificates for resources loaded from localhost. that you can enable.

chrome://flags/#allow-insecure-localhost

Solution 3

Have you tried to add --ignore-certificate-errors tag in Google Chrome shortcut to bypass SSL warning? According to this post, it's a method to bypass & ignore the SSL warning.

Comments

[Nick]

+1 but god knows when they'll remove this feature.

[Mav2287]

Tried a bunch of stuff and this is the only thing that worked. Just reloaded the page and typed in "thisisunsafe" and the page reloaded to what I needed. Thanks!

[Rob C]

wish i knew about this a long time ago, had to make my machine trust these certs, which is a bit of a pain...

[Justin Meskan]

Dude that was amazing!!! I just typed thisisunsafe and hit enter and it passed right through, I never would have thought of this in a million years

[Jadeye]

it doesn't work for me. Any ideas?? server is nginx on ubuntu 18.04 chrome is Version 87.0.4280.88 (Official Build) (64-bit). I did restart chrome to have changes take effect.

[gregg]

Does this whitelist it for good or is simply a keyboard shortcut to clicking 'Advanced' button then clicking Proceed?

[Hephaestus]

Its usually good for a couple weeks.