# WEBrick Issue with IE: Page Not Found, Cannot Connect to Ser **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 12, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-issue-with-ie-page-not-found-cannot-connect-to-ser/95080 "2006-01-12T04:16:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-issue-with-ie-page-not-found-cannot-connect-to-ser/95080/1 "2006-01-12T04:16:40Z")
I’m working on a Ruby on Rails project. I had a catastrophic notebook failure earlier this week so I moved everything over to a new machine. I installed a new version of Ruby, Rails, WATIR, Eclipse, and everything else I need and I am experiencing a problem that none of our other 3 development machines had. When I fire up WEBrick from either a command prompt or my external tool menu in Eclipse, it seems to load up fine and I can hit my Rails app in Firefox from my machine and from other computers. I can’t use Internet Explorer to connect to WEBrick! localhost:3000, 127.0.0.1:3000, nothing works. Firefox responds beautifully to both addresses on port 3000. Now I did notice a behavior I don’t fully understand: When I navigate to localhost:3000 it replaces the value in the address bar with local:3000. I’m all kinds of confused about this problem. It manifests in a number of ways, and I am open to the possibility that this may be several problems coming up all together. If I use Firefox I can browse to WEBrick running on other computers in addition to my local instance. If I use IE on this machine, I can’t hit my own WEBrick, and I can’t hit the WEBrick of the other developer’s machine. I can’t use IE on another machine and hit my local instance of WEBrick here, but I can use Firefox on another machine and connect to it. What can I do to make IE play nicely with WEBrick? Thanks! Jonathan ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-issue-with-ie-page-not-found-cannot-connect-to-ser/95080/2 "2006-01-12T04:49:49Z")
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > Now I did notice a behavior I don’t fully understand: When I navigate > to localhost:3000 it replaces the value in the address bar with > local:3000. Try clearing the IE cache. See about turning off auto-completion of URLs, too. Also try an explicit protocol prefix: [http://127.0.0.1:3000](http://127.0.0.1:3000) And consider adding an entry to your hosts file 127.0.0.1 [www.example.com](http://www.example.com) and trying it with that bogus domain: [http://www.example.com:3000](http://www.example.com:3000) If you have something like wget, fetch the page and inspect the headers to see if anything looks odd. James – [http://www.ruby-doc.org](http://www.ruby-doc.org) - Ruby Help & Documentation [Ruby Code & Style](http://www.artima.com/rubycs/) - The Journal By & For Rubyists [http://www.rubystuff.com](http://www.rubystuff.com) - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff [http://www.jamesbritt.com](http://www.jamesbritt.com) - Playing with Better Toys [http://www.30secondrule.com](http://www.30secondrule.com) - Building Better Tools ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-issue-with-ie-page-not-found-cannot-connect-to-ser/95080/3 "2006-01-12T04:49:49Z")
you will get a better answer at the rails list. but the behaviour you observe is strange…IE replaces localhost to local? never heard of this! ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 7:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-issue-with-ie-page-not-found-cannot-connect-to-ser/95080/4 "2006-01-12T07:23:22Z")
The explicit protocol seems to have done it! I can connect with [http://127.0.0.1:3000](http://127.0.0.1:3000). Thanks a lot, James. Work may resume as normal.