How to stop an automatic redirect from “http://” to “https://” in Chrome
I n addition to cached redirects, HTTP Strict Transport Security (aka HSTS) may be at play. HSTS is a security feature that forces the browser to use HTTPS even when accessing an HTTP URL. The browser will start using HSTS for a domain after receiving a Strict-Transport-Security header from the server. The browser also ships with a list of domains for which HSTS is enabled by default. In Chrome, there is a way to delete your domain from HSTS after it was added by the server. Though, you can’t exclude domains that are baked in the browser (this includes popular websites and notably everything under the new .dev TLD) Go to chrome://net-internals/#hsts . Enter example.com under Delete domain security policies and press the Delete button. Now go to chrome://settings/clearBrowserData , tick the box Cached images and files and press click the button Clear data .