I'm teaching a Tomcat course today and tomorrow and one of the students raised the question why is the default host called localhost? The implied relationship to 127.0.0.1 was causing confusion. That got me thinking:

1. Is there a better name for the default host

2. If there is, should we change it in Tomcat 7?

Users are familiar with localhost and I am worried that changing it will cause more problems than it solves. What do folks think? Should we change the name of the default host to "default", "defaulthost" or something similar for Tomcat 7 or should we just leave it.

I have an slight preference for changing it to "defaulthost" but only just. Thoughts? Would this question be better on the users list?

Mark



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