[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 171934] Don't treat loopback addresses (127.0.0.0/8, ::1/128, localhost, .localhost) as mixed content

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171934

--- Comment #108 from adomas.ven at gmail.com ---
To add to this, we are working on a Word JS extension to be run on Word for Mac for Zotero and like all existing Zotero integrations with Word processors, it needs to communicate to the Zotero application running a server on localhost to facilitate citing. This is both a performance and privacy concern, as remote alternatives would be much slower and require users to upload their research libraries to the cloud.

Microsoft embeds WebKit into Microsoft Word for JS extension functionality, and requires the extensions to be hosted on HTTPS origins, which means that our Word JS extension running in Microsoft Word cannot communicate to our localhost Zotero server due to this WebKit restriction. Unlike in the browser case, our Word for Mac users have no alternative bar switching to a different OS.

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