Default IP Address should be 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0

[notthetup]

Based on RFC 5735, 0.0.0.0 is non-routable.

Recently Chrome stopped routing it to 'localhost' and searching the string "0.0.0.0" on Google instead.

127.0.0.1 is a more safe solution for the default address.

[notthetup]

I should clarify, that there is no technical issue here. Just that if someone copies and pastes (or command clicks in iTerm2) the IP address from the command line output :

Starting up http-server, serving ./ on: http://0.0.0.0:8080

Chrome will try to search the string "0.0.0.0:8000" instead of loading the localhost website.

[1j01]

http-server -o completely fails because of this

[taneltm]

0.0.0.0 binds to all IPv4 interfaces, while 127.0.0.1 is only localhost.

I think binding to 0.0.0.0 by default is better as this tool is "zero-configuration".

If the -o switch is used without the -a switch, browser should open http://127.0.0.1

[1j01]

@taneltm Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Except maybe http://localhost instead. Does 127.0.0.1 have better support than localhost? It's at least highlighted here as a URL where http://localhost is not :P

[taneltm]

Localhost is set by the hosts file, at least on windows.
You can have localhost pointing to an ip address which is not 127.0.0.1, so http://127.0.0.1 would be better, imo.

[indexzero]

Fixed in #132.