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What is the magic behind DOT that makes Fiddler work?

It took me a while to find out that I needed to put a dot after "localhost" in the url so that I could use the script with my development server.

Why do I need to put this point here to make the violinist work for my local:

http: // localhost . : 1888 / MyPage.aspx

What does it mean?

thanks

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Not that you make a violinist, but you do the work of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer is written specifically to bypass the proxy server for "localhost". By adding an endpoint, you provide a valid DNS name that does not match the mechanism in IE that validates the domain (IE does stricmp(userdata, "localhost") or equivalent).

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local. just makes the hostname visible to Fiddler; otherwise IE bypasses the proxy.

You can also replace "ipv4.fiddler" with "localhost", which can help prevent confusion, since the point is easy to skip.

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