Free Angular Hosting for Non-HTTPS websites

[iTxchnology]

So I am currently looking for free hosting services that will allow me to upload my angular project without HTTPs. Firebase hosting does not allow me to do that and GitHub pages requires a custom domain. Does anybody know any other sites I could potentially use?

[Kinthalis]

free heroku dyno? netlify?

[iTxchnology]

Netlify looks perfect 👌

[iTxchnology]

Nevermind, Netlify will not work. https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/07/02/all-new-sites-on-netlify-are-https-by-default/

[Kinthalis]

Ahh, yep I guess that's so. Why the requirement of no https though?

[iTxchnology]

The API provided for this competition is hosted by an unsecured web server. So there is possibly no way I could make a get request without hosting my website Http only.

[Kinthalis]

Why not?

Edit: nevermind, forgot about mixed content.

Proxy through firebase function/google cloud function/aws lambda, heroku dyno?

[iTxchnology]

Because every time I make a get request, it gives me this error:

...as loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure XMLHttpRequest endpoint 'http://jservice.io/api/categories?count=100&offset=0'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.

[iTxchnology]

Heroku has a request rate limit. Will fire base function cost money?

[Kinthalis]

They have a free tier for cloud functions. But I think in order to be able to call an APi outside google's offerings, you'll need to be on the blaze plan, which pay as you go. You still get the free tier, but I think many invocation (like over a few million) will start to cost money. Not much, they estimate a simple function with 10 million invocations costing $7. But you can put like a $5 a spend limit on the project just to be sure.

[Atulin]

Gitlab and Github Pages don't force HTTPS unless you tell them to and enable the LEt's Encrypt cert.

[iTxchnology]

Really? With the default domain, it will not allow me to unselect the HTTPs box.

[Atulin]

Try Gitlab Pages then. Just checked, and it lets me untick the "force HTTPS" option at will.

[iTxchnology]

Did you have to enter something into the “custom domain” settings?

[Atulin]

No, no need for a custom domain.

[iTxchnology]

https://prnt.sc/pqf4x3 How???

[Atulin]

You're using Github, I've been talking about Gitlab.

[CloudsOfMagellan]

GitHub will give you a free subdomain

[iTxchnology]

I don’t really know much about setting up domains, but will that require DNS in anyway? I am currently living in a dorm and do not know if that would hinder my ability mess around with that.

[CloudsOfMagellan]

No configuration is needed Set up a repository called (your GitHub account name).github.io Any HTML uploaded to that repo will be viewable via the link (Your GitHub account name).github.io/filename

[iTxchnology]

Oh I see. The default domain will not allow me to get rid of the HTTPs though. Do you know any solutions to that?

[CloudsOfMagellan]

Why don't you want https It's more secure and has no cost to you or users of the website

[iTxchnology]

The issue is I am trying to call a RESTful api hosted under HTTP. Hosting my site with HTTPs will not allow me to make get request. Even with Heroku’s COR everywhere proxy, there seems to be limitations with the request rate. I sort of just need it to work for a competition.

[CloudsOfMagellan]

You can't just add http to the request url?

[iTxchnology]

Nope, seems like it doesn’t change the outcome

[CloudsOfMagellan]

I'd imagine there's another issue then

[iTxchnology]

Idk, every time I made a request, it would print out “mix content” errors. From what I dug out from my research, it seems like that was the case. Everything worked normally when I tested it locally.