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Think I may have found a bug. When trying to load a JSON feed which isn't behind HTTPS, FireFox blocks it from being loaded on the board:

`Blocked loading mixed active content`

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Security/MixedConte...

In an ideal world, every cheap IoT device would have an valid SSL certificate - but that's a long way off. Perhaps your site should try to proxy the requests rather than relying on the user's browser?

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Yeah it's something that is browser dependent. I wouldn't call it a bug, but it is an annoyance. It's a decision we had to make in order to keep Freeboards secure for customers who don't want their data to be seen. But it does require the API to be available in HTTPS as well.

It's something we'll have to fix— maybe an option to turn off SSL for the freeboard, or like you say, create a proxy.

We'll look into it and have a solution soon.

Cool, thanks.

I ran in to the same thing.

I just downloaded freeboard and I'm running it locally on http, no problem.

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