new version of Google Chrome can't access http://localhost:8080/

[songkran]

I recently upgraded Google Chrome to the newest version in OS X and it can't access http://localhost:8080/  although Safari and other browsers can. 

Is there something I need to do to help Chrome "see" http://localhost:8080/ ?

[shypike]

Firefox once had a problem with localhost too, it had to do with IPV4 vs. IPV6.
Try 127.0.0.1:8080 or [::1]:8080 instead.

[songkran]

Thanks, Shypike.  Changing it to the static IP pf the machine running sabnzbd in settings (192.168.0.XXX) ended up working for me.

[djapplepie]

Similar problem here. Just updated Google Chrome to 5.0.375.29. I am running SABnzbd+ 0.5.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.3.

Here are the results from the browsers I tried:

Google Chrome 5.0.375.29 beta

• localhost:8080 — NOT working
• 127.0.0.1:8080 — NOT working
• [::1]:8080  — NOT working

Firefox 3.6.3

• localhost:8080 — working
• 127.0.0.1:8080 — NOT working
• [::1]:8080  — working

Safari 4.0.5

• localhost:8080 — working
• 127.0.0.1:8080 — NOT working
• [::1]:8080  — working

[shypike]

Time to complain to Google.
From your results it's plain that localhost resolves to the IPV6 address [::1].
I have no idea why Chrome has problems with this, unless it thinks it knows better
than the OS what localhost is.
Safari and Firefox agree that it's [::1].
What happens if you type "ping localhost" in a terminal window?

An alternative is to tell SABnzbd to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost.
Config->General.

[songkran]

djapplepie-- I was mistaken.  The last thing I tried was changing it to the static IP of the machine running sabnzbd (192.168.0.XXX) in settings.  I mistakenly thought if this worked that 127.0.0.1 worked too.  Didn't know Chrome was so sensitive. 

[inpheaux]

Looks like this is either a Mac or Unix bug, because localhost works perfectly fine for me with the latest Chrome beta on Win7, and SABnzbd listening on "localhost".

[djapplepie]

What happens if you type "ping localhost" in a terminal window?

I get this:

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PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.045 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.071 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.072 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.072 ms
...

Looks ok, right?

[djapplepie]

An alternative is to tell SABnzbd to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost.
Config->General.

I told SABnzbd to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost, and Chrome works again (both localhost:8080 and 127.0.0.1:8080). The other two browsers also works. However, [::1]:8080 doesn't.

Chrome was the only browser out of the three I tested that behaved differently when the SABnzbd Host setting was localhost.

[allanpro]

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