A question about Localhost with Safari

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Michael Crawford <mdcrawford at gmail.com>
wrote:

> DNS is a protocol, not an API.  To the extent that hosts is used, it's
> because developer of the software that implements the protocol chooses
> to use it.
>

That would be why I mentioned BSD API (used by most command line utilities)
and Cocoa API (used by GUI stuff, or more generally anything using Apple's
Foundation framework). While the BSD API does sit underneath Foundation,
Cocoa APIs don't always simply wrap the BSD API.

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