A question about Localhost with Safari

[Justin C. Walker]

To add to the chatter:

On Jan 3, 2015, at 13:41 , William H. Magill wrote:

> Did Apple change something in Yosemite/Safari so that "localhost" is no longer an accessible DNS address for Safari?
> 
> I have no trouble ssh-ing to localhost on my system, but Safari always responds  "Can't connect to the Server."

FWIW, i get this on my 10.6.8 system, which is more or less "stock".

Also, 'localhost' is defined in my /etc/hosts, as it came from the factory (with two IPv6 addresses and the usual IPv4 address).

Justin

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