On Monday, Oct 21, 2002, at 14:47 US/Eastern, William_dw -- Sqlcoders wrote:
> Just another quick question/note/thingamajig, not sure if this is > common or > trivial or somesuch... > > The default windows install keeps trying to load the web interface > (FProxy) > as http://127.0.0.1:8888, > This creates two problems for me: > 1) I dont 'live' on 127.0.0.1, I'm on 10.0.0.2 because of my router. > 2) Netscape likes to initiate searching for the URL when it cant find > the > host/IP, which potentially reveals freenet use (what else runs on > :8888) > > The second one is just theoretical/browser related and doesn't bother > me, > but having to change '127.0.0.1' into 'localhost' when I want to load > up > FProxy gets annoying, wouldn't just using localhost achieve the same > effect > while letting the user's system use it's internal setting for just > where > localhost is? > > Just my $0.02 for the hour :). > William. > > correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 127.0.0.1 always supposed to point to the loopback interface? mkf -- PGP Key: http://pgp.dtype.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB30B3DF9 Key fingerprint = C837 FB6D A7F0 4E8A A44F EB81 7E83 9252 B30B 3DF9 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20021021/f7aa7c38/attachment.pgp>
