On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:51:04PM +0100, Mark Thomas wrote: > 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:
I am about -0.25 to changing it; on most machines it *is* 127.0.0.1 in addition to any external interfaces, and as you point out everybody knows it, but defaulthost probably is a better name in the long run, as it breaks the implied necessary connection to the loopback host. OTOH, in training courses and in development you often use a URL of http://localhost:8080/ and the association there is good. If you've only had one student have a problem with it, maybe it's not worth fussing over? :-) Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
