ThioJoe covers a recent Windows Patch update that temporarily broke HTTP/2 localhost connections and explains which apps were ...

ThioJoe covers a recent Windows Patch Tuesday update that temporarily broke HTTP/2 localhost connections and explains which apps were affected. He details Microsoft’s rollback solution and offers ...

Microsoft confirmed that Windows 11 KB5066835 breaks localhost (127.0.0.1) HTTP/2 connections, which means locally hosted apps can no longer connect to your network, but that’s not the only problem.

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 patch tripped over its own shoelaces and knocked out localhost, leaving devs unable to reach web apps running on their own machines. The October cumulative update ...

The problem first surfaced on Microsoft's own support forums and quickly spread to Stack Overflow and Server Fault after the October 2025 cumulative update (KB5066835) landed, which appears to have ...

If you encounter the Localhost refused to connect error message when running any web server on your local Windows 11/10 computer, then this post is intended to help ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. There are a variety of reasons why developer or DevOps professionals locally install the Apache ...

Facebook and Yandex have been caught performing user-hostile tracking. This sort of makes today just another Friday, but this is a bit special. This time, it’s Local Mess. OK, it’s an attack with a ...

Security researchers say Meta and Yandex used native Android apps to listen on localhost ports, allowing them to link web browsing data to user identities and bypass typical privacy protections.

Let’s see how we do all this stuff. Firstly you want to create the root directory of the new subdomain. Go to C:/xampp/htdocs (this might be different for you depending on where you installed XAMPP).