On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:11:24PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote:
> # allow from localhost # why does this not work?
Are you pointing your browser at
http://localhost/blah
or at:
http://mycomputername/blah
?
At a guess, the first should work, and the second shouldn't. Your
browser is free to bind to any local interface it likes when it creates
a socket to connect to somewhere... default behaviour for sockets is to
try pick an appropriate interface, so if you point your browser at a
"real" IP addres, or a domain name that maps to one, it will connect
from your internet connection's address, not your localhost one.
I hope this helps (and I hope I'm making sense :)
-Andrew.
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