Allow microphone access to Open Web UI across local network

Openweb-ui doesn't let you record voice as an input when accessing the web UI from a different computer on the local network because local network IP addresses aren't trusted by default by Firefox, Chrome etc.

Access via http://localhost:3000 does however, because most browser trust localhost, unlike other local IP addresses. Most solutions involve setting up a reverse proxy like Traefik, Caddy etc.

But an easier way to get around this on a known, finite list of devices is to tell the browser you trust the local address of the machine running Openwebui:

In Chrome:

1. Navigate to chrome://flags/#unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure in Chrome.
2. Find and enable the Insecure origins treated as secure section.
3. Add any addresses you want to ignore the secure origin policy for. Remember to include the protocol and port number too e.g. http://192.168.1.11:3000
4. Save and restart Chrome.

In Firefox:

1. go to about:config
2. search for dom.securecontext.allowlist
3. Change to string
4. Add only the local IP of the openwebui server (no http/s, no port). Browser restart not required, it should just work next time you visit the address.

References

http://devdoc.net/web/developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Secure_Contexts.html

https://medium.com/@Carmichaelize/enabling-the-microphone-camera-in-chrome-for-local-unsecure-origins-9c90c3149339

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