HttpContext.Current.Request.Url giving 127.0.0.1

Question

While debugging in Visual Studio which is running at following URL http://localhost:39452/ I am getting http://127.0.0.1 as the value for following property

 HttpContext.Current.Request.Url

instead of http://localhost:39452/ I am having this value in my hosts file:

::1  localhost

Can you let me what I am doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Perhaps you are trying to get the HttpContext.Current.Request.Url value too early.

For example; during the Init event of a HttpModule you may face with these kind of problems. I mean you may get http://127.0.0.1/myApp instead of the correct value of http://localhost/myApp.

Answer 2

Both are localhost; ::1 is the shorthand notation of the IPv6 version and 127.0.0.1 is the IPv4 version.

I guess your assumption that you are doing something wrong, is the only thing you're doing wrong! :)