How to disable chrome redirecting http to http requests

Question

So I've got a vm running and I've updated /etc/hosts on the host machine using dev to point the the VM IP. When using chrome however e.g dev:5000/some/path it redirects me to http://dev:5000/some/path

I've already attempted the suggestions in this question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25277457/google-chrome-redirecting-localhost-to-https, but that doesn't work for me. Any idea how to disable https redirection?

Answer 1

Ok so found a workaround. Updated my /etc/hosts from dev to dev.local