Accessing localhost:port from Android emulator

You can access your host machine with the IP address “10.0.2.2“. This has been designed in this way by the Android team. So your webserver can perfectly run at localhost and from your Android app you can access it via “http://10.0.2.2:<hostport>“. If your emulator must access the internet through a proxy server, you can configure … Read more

Can you test google analytics on a localhost address?

This question remains valid today, however the technology has changed. The old Urchin tracker is deprecated and obsolete. The new asynchronous Google Analytics tracking code uses slightly different code to achieve the same results. Google Analytics Classic – Asynchronous Syntax – ga.js The current syntax for setting the tracking domain to none on google analytics … Read more

How do you connect localhost in the Android emulator? [duplicate]

Use 10.0.2.2 to access your actual machine. As you’ve learned, when you use the emulator, localhost (127.0.0.1) refers to the device’s own loopback service, not the one on your machine as you may expect. You can use 10.0.2.2 to access your actual machine, it is an alias set up to help in development.

Invalid Host Header when ngrok tries to connect to React dev server

I’m encountering a similar issue and found two solutions that work as far as viewing the application directly in a browser ngrok http 8080 –host-header=”localhost:8080″ ngrok http –host-header=rewrite 8080 obviously, replace 8080 with whatever port you’re running on this solution still raises an error when I use this in an embedded page, that pulls the … Read more

No “Proceed Anyway” option on NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID in Chrome on MacOS

FYI: Chrome on MacOS treats this different than Windows. MacOS version won’t see the proceed button even you click advanced button. To still proceed the visit as you are sure this page is safe, here is a easy way to do: There’s a secret passphrase built into the error page. Just make sure the page … Read more

Using reCAPTCHA on localhost

Update The original answer is no longer correct. The developer’s guide now states: “If you would like to use “localhost” for development, you must add it to the list of domains.” This will only work if you access localhost using 127.0.0.1/… rather than localhost/…. The original answer is preserved below. According to the reCAPTCHA Developer’s … Read more

Addressing localhost from a VirtualBox virtual machine [closed]

Googling turned this up: http://data.agaric.com/localhost-from-virtualbox-xp-install-ubuntu It suggests using IP: http://10.0.2.2, and it worked for me. So, I edited the hosts file, C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, and added this entry: 10.0.2.2 outer If you’re testing on IE8, remember to put http:// in the address bar. Just putting the ip directly will not work. For example: http://10.0.2.2:3000/