Unfortunately browsers won't let you connect to insecure ws / http from a secure https origin. We could do a Tauri desktop version of Iris to bypass that restriction.
is iris picky about requiring SSL for all relays? (even localhost?) 
I'm playing with python relay https://code.pobblelabs.org/nostr_relay and nothing appears in the sqlite db. In the picture you can see ws:// and none of the externals actually show the wss://
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Great tip thanks. 🙏 That clears up the confusion. I'll try and mkcert for localhost tomorrow 🛌