On Mar 29, 1:45 pm, CharlesHarrison <[email protected]> wrote: > > > localhost is localhost. You cannot point it to another machine. > > Well, I wasn't convinced, and I just edited both hosts and lmhosts to > point to the IP of the development machine, and lo, it worked! I can > now test locally in IE8.
I didn't mean that it cannot be done physically, but that you shouldn't do it because localhost is used for some internal tasks and you could be breaking something else. -- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- > > It's probably not a good idea generally. I dare say that there are > all sorts of things that people commonly have installed that could > break, and more worryingly, I'm wondering what the securiy > implications might be for the development machine. But it did work. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
