browser-sync cannot proxy https-websites
I use browser-sync 2.11.1 with OS X Chrome 48.0.2564.97 (64-bit)
When I use it as a proxy for http-website:
browser-sync start --proxy http://example.com
it works great and I can point multiple browsers to localhost:3000 so that actions done in one of them are replicated in others.
However when I use it for https-website:
browser-sync start --proxy https://twitter.com
it doesn't work. When I point browsers to localhost:3000 they do not show up in "Current Connections" of browser-sync UI and also the actions are not replicated between them.
Maybe it has something to do with my browser complaining about https:
Is there a bug in browser-sync or am I missing something?
Apparently https://twitter.com is just a bad example. When I try https://about.gitlab.com/ the synchronization between my browsers does work:
browser-sync start --proxy https://about.gitlab.com/ --logLevel debug
According to the maintainer of browser-sync:
any large site like twitter has multiple techniques in place to prevent proxing like this - and rightly so.
Browsersync is a development tool to be used on local addresses that you're working on - in those cases it will work fine with HTTPS - you'll just have to click accept on the warning about self-signed certs :)