Infrastructure

Localhost

A special-use name referring back to the local host through loopback addressing. In an ordinary browser on your computer, localhost refers to that computer, not to the developer's machine elsewhere. It is a destination name, not a service: an appropriate process must still be listening at the requested port.

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