[18945/18950] WSL2 localhost sometimes stalls in Chrome (curl seems to work)

[shayne]

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18950.1000]
(also happened on last 18945 build)

• Node app running, bound to 0.0.0.0:3000
• Launch Chrome and navigate to localhost:3000 and it works as intended
• Make code changes in text editor (VSCode FWIW)
• Hit refresh
  • Sometimes it works and the page reloads
  • More often, the browser stalls on "connecting to localhost". It doesn't seem to resolve itself, usually I close the tab and reopen it and it starts working. But sometimes it takes multiple attempts.

It's worth noting that while I'm struggling in the browser, if I curl localhost:3000 from PowerShell, I've never had it hang there, it always seems to work.

• What's wrong / what should be happening instead:

Since I started using the new localhost feature of WSL2 I experience this hang-up in the browser where it's not reloading. I'd expect it to reload without any trouble.

[Drakota]

Duplicate of #4340
Seems to be a keepAlive issue

[shayne]

I agree- thanks for linking, I failed to find it before creating this issue.

Closing, Dupe of #4340