Using os.hostname() not working for users

[ddgenome]

os.hostname() is not working reliably for users. We should use localhost or, if you want to avoid problems with people who do not have localhost configured properly, 127.0.0.1.

[cdupuis]

So, you’re saying os.hostname() doesn’t return the correct host name?

[ddgenome]

It returns a host name that is not resolvable to an IP address.

[cdupuis]

So, do we want localhost or 127.0.0.1? I probably also want to make that configurable in the client.config.json approach.

[ddgenome]

Using the IP address should be safer, if less intuitive.

[johnsonr]

This is in local? There's a strategy interface for this: LocalHostUrlAliaser. The default strategy should pick up some configuration or it should be added on config somewhere

[cdupuis]

Yeah, I'm on it.