I have a SearXNG instance running locally, and I have a proxy entry for this (search.home). When I go to https://search.home/ in Firefox, it works as expected and brings me to SearXNG, however if I try adding this as my default search, it instead resolves to the IP and not the hostname, which fails because the IP does not have a cert on it and it tries to hit it with https (as would work with the hostname).

This works in Firefox mobile, and every other web browser I’ve tried on desktop, just not Firefox for some reason. I’ve tried various about:config changes but so far no luck. Anyone else have a workaround for this? It would be nice if Firefox showed you what it actually has saved for the url/hostname/IP of the search engine in the Search section of the Settings, but sadly it just has the name and shortcut listed.

  • smpl@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Have you looked at the OpenSearch Description file for your instance? It might be generated with an IP by SearXNG not knowing the hostname. The URL is probably https://search.home/opensearch.xml.

    If you want to examine the search engines in your browser profile, they’re stored in a json file compressed with a mozilla specific variant of lz4. The file is search.json.mozlz4 and can be unpacked to json with lz4json.

    • root@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      1 day ago

      Thanks! The output of the xml is as follows

      <OpenSearchDescription>
<ShortName>SearXNG</ShortName>
<LongName>SearXNG metasearch</LongName>
<Description>
SearXNG is a metasearch engine that respects your privacy.
</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<Image type="image/png">
https://192.168.2.20:8080/static/themes/simple/img/favicon.png?60321eeb6e2f478f0e5704529308c594d5924246
</Image>
<Url rel="results" type="text/html" method="GET" template="https://192.168.2.20:8080/search?q=%7BsearchTerms%7D"/>
<Url rel="suggestions" type="application/x-suggestions+json" method="GET" template="https://192.168.2.20:8080/autocompleter?q=%7BsearchTerms%7D"/>
<Url rel="self" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" method="GET" template="https://192.168.2.20:8080/opensearch.xml"/>
<Query role="example" searchTerms="SearXNG"/>
<moz:SearchForm>https://192.168.2.20:8080/search</moz:SearchForm>
</OpenSearchDescription>

      It looks like it’s set to use https://192.168.2.20:8080/ for some reason. https://search.home/ will resolve fine but using https with the underlying IP will not.