Getting Chrome to accept self-signed localhost certificate

Question

I have created a self-signed SSL certificate for the localhost CN. Firefox accepts this certificate after initially complaining about it, as expected. Chrome and IE, however

Answer 1

This is something that keeps coming up -- especially for Google Chrome on Mac OS X Yosemite!

Thankfully, one of our development team sent me this link today, and the method works reliably, whilst still allowing you to control for which sites you accept certificates.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/3ercx4/chrome_shortcut_past_the_your_connection_is_not/cthporl

jersully posts:

If you don't want to bother with internal certificates...

1. Type chrome://flags/ in the address bar.
2. Scroll to or search for Remember decisions to proceed through SSL errors for a specified length of time.
3. Select Remember for three months.