Ask HN: Redirect-to-www on a dot-dev domain?

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I ve just purchased a dot-dev domain from Namecheap who I ve used before and been very happy with.I set my domain up to use www as a CNAME to a static-file web service and the apex domain as a redirector to that www site. Done it before, works great!But then it didn t work so well. The www site was working fine exactly as I wanted, but that apex domain redirect wasn t working. I kept getting a connection-refused error. Huh?Worked through the possibilities, I finally found the problem. Namecheap s redirector service was only running on port 80. For my dot-com, that was no problem, but my dot-dev domain, like all dot-dev, are flagged as TLS only. My browser was refusing to connect to port 80!I m now looking at possibilities for an alternate redirect-to-www service that works over TLS.Any suggestions for my next move please?

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