Chrome doesn't treat insecure origin as secure despite flag

Question

I want to test getUserMedia on an insecure origin on Chrome on Windows. I am starting Chrome in this way as instructed on goo.gl/rStTGz, a link that shows up in the console if you use insecure origin with getUserMedia:

start chrome "http://my-ip:8000/index.html" --unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure="http://my-ip" --user-data-dir=/tmp

In index.html there is this:

navigator.getUserMedia({ audio: true, video: { width: 1280, height: 720 } }, stream => console.debug(stream), e => console.error(e))

It still gives me error even though I did what the first link said. This error includes another link goo.gl/Y0ZkNV which doesn't mention how to work around this for testing at all.

Is this still supported? It would seem so, because Chrome indeed did start with a fresh profile and shows a warning about using the aforementioned flag. The flag is obviously read by Chrome, but not acted upon. Why?

Answer 1

You need to specify the port in the flag as well. Try

start chrome "http://my-ip:8000/index.html" --unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure="http://my-ip:8000" --user-data-dir=/tmp

Note that --user-data-dir is no longer required. See the note in point #3 here.