webview loadurl cannot load webpage from localhost web application?

Question

Hi,

I came across an interesting issue when testing android 2.2. My testing was to use webview api,

webview.loadUrl(url);

if url is from any public domain, ex, www.google.com, the web content is rendered very well. (url="http://www.google.com") if url is from local host, ex, tomcat with port 8080, the web content is rendered as well. (url="http://10.123.21.111:8080/MyWeb") but if url is from other port, ex, websphere with port 9080, the web content is not rendered. (url="http://10.123.21.111:9080/MyWeb") there is no exception thrown, and it shows blank on the emulator.

Is there any setting needed for different port? Anyone can answer this issue?

Thanks.

John

Answer 1

if I use built-in browser in Android to access http://10.123.21.111:8080/MyWeb, the web content is rendered as expected. So it is quite wield not working by using webview api.

Answer 2

Referring to localhost from the emulated environment

If you need to refer to your host computer's localhost, such as when you want the emulator client to contact a server running on the same host, use the alias 10.0.2.2 to refer to the host computer's loopback interface. From the emulator's perspective, localhost (127.0.0.1) refers to its own loopback interface.