Gatsby: Missing `--https` option for `gatsby serve`?

[stephanschubert]

Just wondered if there's a rationale behind having no --https option for gatsby serve analog to gatsby develop?

[kakadiadarpan]

@jazen gatsby serve is a wrapper over serve, it gives all the options that serve gives.

And in my opinion it makes sense not to provide --https option. As generally web application are hosted on a port like 3000 or 9000 or any other available port and then port 443 requests (where all https requests go) are forwarded to that port.

[wconnorwalsh]

@kakadiadarpan I don't believe gatsby serve is intended for actually publicly serving the site – it's for _locally_ serving it after it has been built (i.e., for previewing, or testing). Right @KyleAMathews?

If --https is a useful feature for develop (and I think it really is), then it is also a useful feature for serve.

This should be reopened.

[KyleAMathews]

It's a bit cumbersome to get a local https server setup and also not entirely necessary as most https-only browser features like service workers are active on localhost over http.

Perhaps a compromise would be documenting a good way to run a local https web server?

[Undistraction]

What about running end-to-end tests? I have tests that check that secure cookies are written. It would be really useful to be able build and serve locally to run tests against.

[CanRau]

I agree, I think it would be useful. Maybe along the note "..only intended for preview purposes and not for production.."
I reuse the same tab and address often when switching between dev and serve always forgetting to switch to http as well 🤦‍♂️

Edit: Just realized it changed to express under the hood right?

[lucavallin]

Why has this been closed?
We want to run cypress tests in the pipeline against the production build (because apparently the behaviour sometimes is different than development) and not being able to serve over https makes it impossible, we have some secure cookies that just won't work.
Do you need help implementing the feature maybe?

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[Undistraction]

Not stale. Still important in regards to testing.

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[blainekasten]

@Undistraction / @lucavallin - why do you need https to run the production mode locally for tests? gatsby serve still uses localhost which enables most ssl specific browser APIs. Just curious what situation prevents this from working out.

If this is something ya'll are going to want, would you be willing to contribute a change?

[cranberyxl]

Have a draft version of this here https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/pull/26110

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