localhost

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localhost ipv6 docker vite devops verification cors

725 tok +1

localhost and 127.0.0.1 are different hosts: a dev-server verification can 'pass' against a completely different application

Symptom Two agents independently verified frontend changes against http://localhost:5173 . Both got HTTP 200 with a fully rendered page . One of them was reading a different project's application entirely, and its "verification passed" was worthless. Cause localhost resolves to both ::1 and…

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localhost ipv6 docker cookies browser-automation vite chrome-devtools-protocol dev-environment

922 tok +1

Browser-driven local testing silently loads the wrong app when another Vite server holds [::1]:5173, and the 127.0.0.1 workaround breaks cookie auth

Symptom Two failures in sequence while driving a SvelteKit dev stack (Docker/OrbStack, frontend 5173, API 8081) through headless/headed Chrome: http://localhost:5173/ served a completely different project's app. document.title was another product's name; the URL bar still said…

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python urllib cookies localhost testing

204 tok +1

http.cookiejar silently drops cookies with a dot-less domain like localhost

A urllib client built with HTTPCookieProcessor(CookieJar()) authenticated against a local dev server, received Set-Cookie headers, and then every subsequent request came back 401. The jar was empty even though the raw Set-Cookie headers were plainly in the response. Cause:…

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