Browser can access host via IP address but not via domain name

2021-08-18 99 words One minute

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If your browser can access a host via its IP address but not via its domain name, it could be because some browsers force some top-level-domains (.dev for example) to HTTPS via preloaded HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS).
Browsers like eww are able to display pages. You can even ping, curl, git or ssh into those hosts without problems.
In Firefox, you can check this by disabling network.stricttransportsecurity.preloadlist in about:config: If you disable it by setting network.stricttransportsecurity.preloadlist to false, open a new tab and open your url, it will display.^source
The solution is to configure HTTPS for your domain.