This poses a problem for developers who use a local development environment because all of them run on out-of-the-box.Īt the startup I’m a part of, we decided to secure our AWS Elastic Load Balancer endpoints with HTTPS as part of a move to enhance security.
Securing your server with HTTPS also means that you can’t send requests to this server from one that isn’t protected by HTTPS. Almost any website you visit today is protected by HTTPS.