IPFS Cannot connect to https resources on IPFS because of insecure connection

[Mithrandir2k18]

Description

Some applications like https://orbit.chat/ require an https connection to the ipfs node.
The node that comes with brave apperently doesn't support that, as I get

once the address is resolved to https://orbit.chat.ipns.localhost:9006/.

Now the annoying thing is, I cannot even connect to an https IPFS gateway, because it'll automatically override the address to point to the local node, that doesn't support https. I tried the address on chrome and there both, going through the https gateway https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmU9ZTANSMd78GhdDv7srSBeiFkffSFqADpEJn3E4X7Thw/
and the above orbit.chat address work.

So basically with applications like orbit, they will work if you use a browser that doesn't support IPFS.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install the IPFs extention and go to https://orbit.chat/. It won't work.
2. Use e.g. google chome and https://orbit.chat/ will work

[diracdeltas]

@lidel any suggestion on how we should handle this?

[lidel]

@Mithrandir2k18 mind providing more information?

1. where does localhost:9006 come from? (this is not the default port of Brave node)
2. Are you running IPFS Companion?
   2.1 What IPFS Node Type is set in its Preferences?
   2.2 What is IPFS API URL in its Preferences?

[lidel]

Ok, turns out this is a bug in https://orbit.chat/ – I filled orbitdb-archive/orbit-web#155

@diracdeltas nothing to fix in Brave nor Companion, this can be closed.

[diracdeltas]

@lidel thank you for looking into this!