wine users - Sep 2009 - Accessing the host's "localhost" from a Wine app

I'm trying to find a simple solution for testing webpages on ancient web
browsers (in this case Internet Explorer 6).  PlayOnLinux installs IE6
flawlessly, but it cannot access the webserver running on the host by means of
something like http://localhost:8888 (as the Wine Guest probably has it's
own Localhost interface -- what I need is to access the Host's localhost
interface).

I tried using the hosts (local) IP, but that doesn't work either.

External Internet pages work fine, but that doesn't really help me (it would
be impossible to access the locally used development webserver this way).

Could I access it by using a special address (like 127.0.0.2 or something) ?  

Is there a solution?

Thanks,
John

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:13, john16384 <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I'm trying to find a simple solution for testing webpages on ancient
web browsers (in this case Internet Explorer 6). ?PlayOnLinux installs IE6
flawlessly, but it cannot access the webserver running on the host by means of
something like http://localhost:8888 (as the Wine Guest probably has it's
own Localhost interface -- what I need is to access the Host's localhost
interface).
>
Wine is not virtualization.

Have youo tried 127.0.0.1 and ::1 rather than localhost? (I know
OpenSolaris has some weird issues with things only listening on
IPv6...)

PlayOnLinux is not supported here.

Gert