Can't load pages hosted on local webserver when using Windows machine name as host
I'm a web developer and I need to be able to access local web servers with my Windows machine name as the host. I have been able to do this without issue in Chrome but this apparently doesn't work in Firefox. For example I can launch a simple web server with the Node.js http-server package and access it at <machine name>.lan:8080 in Chrome however when I try the same thing in Firefox I get a "The connection was reset" error page.
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"The connection was reset" can indicate that the server terminates the handshake because it does not support any of the same ciphers for secure connections as Firefox.
It also can indicate other things, but that is one of the more common ones recently.
Does the error page show any other information?
Well the local server is not being served over https so I don't think it's an issue with negotiating a secure connection. I even tried explicitly setting the protocol to http instead of https but that didn't fix the issue. I've included the full text of the error message below:
The connection was reset
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection. If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.