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Local development with none-localhost domain without HTTPS as "CONVEX_SITE_ORIGIN"?

For the locally hosted Convex backend, I use the domain

http://site.convex.local

http://site.convex.local

instead of

http://127.0.0.1:3211

http://127.0.0.1:3211

for CONVEX_SITE_ORIGIN
CONVEX_SITE_ORIGIN
during development.

Unfortunately, I get this error with

npx convex dev

npx convex dev

The pushed auth config is invalid: Invalid provider domain URL ‘http://site.convex.local’: must use HTTPS

The pushed auth config is invalid: Invalid provider domain URL ‘http://site.convex.local’: must use HTTPS

This error is thrown by this validation code:
https://github.com/get-convex/convex-backend/blob/main/crates/common/src/auth.rs#L208-L220

QUESTION 1 How can this be resolved so that not ONLY

localhost

localhost

is supported as a domain for local development without HTTPS?

As a workaround, I can set the env variable like this

CONVEX_SITE_ORIGIN=http://127.0.0.1:3211

CONVEX_SITE_ORIGIN=http://127.0.0.1:3211

.
QUESTION 2: But are there any side effects if I use

http://site.convex.local

http://site.convex.local

in the frontend?