Local proxies with IE7 – Solved
This has been bugging me …
IE7 always bypasses the proxy when connecting to localhost, irrelevant of what options you choose. This makes life painful if you’re trying to use some like Fiddler when developing a site locally.
If you’re hosting locally with IIS, you can just connect using http://machinename/ instead of http://localhost/.
Unfortunately we don’t have this flexibility with Casini (the one included with VS 2005) as it only accepts connections to http://localhost:xyz/.
Today, I came across the solution thanks to Dominick Baier!
Use http://localhost.:xyz/ (notice the added period between the hostname and the colon).
- IE7 is no longer sure if it’s local or not, so we get the proxy,
- it still gets routed correctly, and
- Casini still accepts the connection.
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April 25, 2007 at 15:17
thanks. it really solved my problem.
paiman
June 18, 2009 at 04:48