Enable Javascript for local .html files

Wed Dec 3 23:43:20 GMT 2008

On Wednesday 03 December 2008, Richard Moore wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:12 PM, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org> wrote:
> > That is the loop back IP address.  IIUC, the IP address for your system
> > is defined as 127.0.0.0.  I don't know if you can use an IP address
> > there.  It says Host/Domain. but the IP address might be acceptable.
>
> Anything within the 127.0.0.0/24 network is a valid localhost address.
> I have seen some distros using 127.0.0.2 for some reason for example.
> 127.0.0.0 itself is the address of the loopback network, so while it
> might work for somethings, it probably wouldn't work for everything.

Minor correction: The whole 127.0.0.0/8 network is reserved for loopback(s). 
See: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3330.txt