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Originally Posted by ripgtr
Yes, good point.
Localhost won't work on anything but the local machine. You need to put in an ip address for anything remote.
Technical part :-) -
Networking doesn't use names, it uses IP addresses. There is a file in the OS called a hosts file that does what a dns server does, change names to ip addresses. In this file is the name localhost, with an ip address of 127.0.0.1, which is the loopback address - which just means "this system". When you use "localhost", it looks that up, sees it is this system and sends it there. So, when you use "localhost" on another system, it is just going to look at itself. So you have to use the ip address.
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thanks for the technical part
This combination was the only option it worked on my ipad.
J