How to make a web request from within Windows Azure

Question

Running under local development, I'm trying to make a WebRequest to http://127.0.0.1:8000 under Windows Azure (July CTP).

But it throws a "A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable network 127.0.0.1:8000" exception.

I have 2 web roles running from the same Cloudservice but with different port numbers. How do I solve this?

Answer 1

This should work fine. Are you sure you have something listening on port 8000? Can you try accessing it from outside your Windows Azure application?