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by TheRealPomax 549 days ago
Sure: your web server doesn't need to care about the "S" part in the slightest in order for the web site to work over HTTPS.

Reverse proxies have existed for a very, very long time, you simply run a local HTTP server and you let the reverse proxy take care of https-to-and-from-the-WAN-side part. Even in dev context, that takes at most a few minutes to set up these days thanks to letsencrypt's certbot.