"php artisan serve" forces HTTPS, where to disable locally?

I am running Laravel 5.6 and when I run "php artisan serve" I am being redirected to httpS://127.0.0.1:xxxx where xxxx rotates a bunch of port numbers.

Also, I am getting this error message in the console: "127.0.0.1:63227 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)" ands as you can see it has a seemingly random port number.

Needless to say I cannot run locally. I would like to know what is causing this so at least I may be able to disable it locally. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Tue May 25 16:00:23 2021] 127.0.0.1:63230 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)
[Tue May 25 16:00:23 2021] 127.0.0.1:63230 Closing
[Tue May 25 16:00:23 2021] 127.0.0.1:63231 Accepted
[Tue May 25 16:00:23 2021] 127.0.0.1:63232 Accepted
[Tue May 25 16:00:23 2021] 127.0.0.1:63231 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)
[Tue May 25 16:00:23 2021] 127.0.0.1:63231 Closing
[Tue May 25 16:00:23 2021] 127.0.0.1:63232 Invalid request (Unsupported SSL request)

There is NOTHING in the log.

via Chebli Mohamed