Ain't nothing wrong with a little unencrypted HTTP between friends. In your localhost.
I mean, as long as all of them are consenting adults...
Yes, I'm sure our static public images transferred from static web server to caching proxy need that extra protection /s
You mean for testing, or in general?
I would rather use the same protocol for testing that I use for higher environments, unless there is a strong reason not to. Same reason I wouldn't use SQlite locally and postgres in staging / prod.
Daniel has no "prod" or "testing" environments. Not every dogma needs to be applied for everything, everywhere.