On 7/15/2010 9:44 PM, Yoav Shapira wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> 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: >> >> 1. Is there a better name for the default host >> >> 2. If there is, should we change it in Tomcat 7? > > -0 like the other folks. The risks of changing it outweigh the benefits.
Believe it or not, 'localhost' is not absolutely portable, and broken without all that much effort. '127.0.0.1' is actually safer for the current design. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
