Connecting to a Windows server process from WSL

No big revelation here, just writing this as a reminder to myself next time I try curl localhost from WSL and it doesn't work:

  1. Don't use localhost or 127.0.0.1. Use your machine IP. But you shouldn't even need to figure this out. Using your-computer-name>.local should work (eg curl Joshs-PC.local. Even better: curl $(hostname).local.
  2. Make sure your server is listening on 0.0.0.0, not 127.0.0.1.

Source: this excellent StackOverflow answer.


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Connecting to a Windows server process from WSL

No big revelation here, just writing this as a reminder to myself next time I try curl localhost from WSL and it doesn't work:

  1. Don't use localhost or 127.0.0.1. Use your machine IP. But you shouldn't even need to figure this out. Using your-computer-name>.local should work (eg curl Joshs-PC.local. Even better: curl $(hostname).local.
  2. Make sure your server is listening on 0.0.0.0, not 127.0.0.1.

Source: this excellent StackOverflow answer.


I write about my software engineering learnings and experiments. Stay updated with Tentacle: tntcl.app/blog.shalvah.me.

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An exploration of vector search

With the AI hype going around, you may have come across the phrase "vector search", "vector database", or "embeddings" lately. Here's an exploration ...

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While writing my custom serialization format, I spent a while working with byte streams, strings and encodings, so I figured I'd do an article on tha...

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