Can't proxy from localhost:3000 to localhost:7000 without internet connection

[rksh1997]

In my client's package.json.
"proxy": "http://localhost:7000"
with internet connection everything is fine and the api works awesome.
without internet connection it shows me this error:
Could not proxy request /api/users/signup from localhost:3000 to http://localhost:7000 (ENOENT).
the problem is that mot of my time I am offline.

[chimurai]

Try using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost.

http-party/node-http-proxy#835 (comment)

[gaearon]

Can we fix this in https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy?

[gaearon]

Apparently it's "by design" in Node?
vladimir-shcherbakov/node@8e0f244#comments

I don't really understand this. Should we just hardcode it to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost on Windows, like https://github.com/seanpoulter/growly/commit/9fc8a610032ca705162a70647e6a52c9a302c6cb?

[rksh1997]

@gaearon I did that, and it worked, I didn't find any other solution

[gaearon]

I'll take a PR that does it on Windows (the problem is specific to Windows right?). Would you like to submit one?

[bunshar]

I am working on this now.

[gaearon]

@bunshar Any updates?

[vikasaditya]

@gaearon the change was very small but lost my access to windows machine for testing. Will install on virtualbox and send PR with a day or two.