When I debug a Visual Studio project using Chrome the browser tries to redirect to the https equivalent of my web address. I do not have SSL enabled in the web project and the start URL is the http URL. When I debug using FireFox or IE I do not have this problem.
I did re-install Chrome which fixed the problem for a day. Without downloading any addons the problem happened again the next day.
What is making Chrome redirect localhost to https?
Network Inspect Shows: Request URL:data:text/html,chromewebdata Request Headers Provisional headers are shown User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36
No preview and no response data in those tabs.
Chrome 63 (out since December 2017), will force all domains ending on .dev (and .foo) to be redirected to HTTPS via a preloaded HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) header. You can find more information about this here.
For someone who had the same problem I solved by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + DELETE to delete just the entire browser cache. Now I can access my localhost website on HTTP protocol.