Keycloak master realm sslRequired error

[pgarmaz-da]

Background

We had addressed some users facing issues with AppProvider and AppUser realms in Keycloak requring HTTPS. It has come to light that Keycloak's default admin realm can present a similarerror as when browsing urls like http://keycloak.localhost:8082/admin/master/console/#/master. The following log line is generated:

2025-08-13 03:39:41,181 WARN  [org.keycloak.events] (executor-thread-15) type="LOGIN_ERROR", realmId="107e6026-f64a-48db-ae4b-fe42d9d15290", realmName="master", clientId="null", userId="null", ipAddress="151.101.78.132", error="ssl_required"

The user is then presented with this in their browser: