I am testing a very simple webauthn example written with go from and it works very well when I build it for the host machine. I am using MacOS Big Sur with Chrome 91. However, if I build the example for an arm7/linux machine, I am getting "browser not supported" error message.

Clearly the browser is supported since it works on the host machine. The code that checks for browser support is this

// check whether current browser supports WebAuthn
if (!window.PublicKeyCredential) {
     alert("Error: this browser does not support WebAuthn");
     return;
   }

The cross piled machine doesn't have internet access though I am highly doubtful that that is the reason. What can be the reason for this?

I am accessing the cross piled machine through it's IP address. Can that be the reason? To test this I accessed it through it's bonjour name and that didn't make a difference.

I am testing a very simple webauthn example written with go from https://github./hbolimovsky/webauthn-example and it works very well when I build it for the host machine. I am using MacOS Big Sur with Chrome 91. However, if I build the example for an arm7/linux machine, I am getting "browser not supported" error message.

Clearly the browser is supported since it works on the host machine. The code that checks for browser support is this

// check whether current browser supports WebAuthn
if (!window.PublicKeyCredential) {
     alert("Error: this browser does not support WebAuthn");
     return;
   }

The cross piled machine doesn't have internet access though I am highly doubtful that that is the reason. What can be the reason for this?

I am accessing the cross piled machine through it's IP address. Can that be the reason? To test this I accessed it through it's bonjour name and that didn't make a difference.

• javascript
• go
• webauthn

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How do you access your linux/arm machine with your browser? WebAuthn only works in a secure context, http://localhost or https://anywhereelse that is...