Windows version of Postman, corporate proxy, and localhost

With the windows version of postman (not the chrome app version) and some corporate auto-proxy setups, requests to localhost may result in “Your requested host “localhost” could not be resolved by DNS.”

Which was a real head scratcher, and google let me down.

The solution is an environment variable
NO_PROXY = localhost

Thanks to some friends of friends, my 8 hours of cursing came to an end.

How to create multiple network profiles on Windows XP/2000.

I’ve been meaning to figure out how to do this…it was always easy to do on Macintosh systems. Someone else blogged about it for me here

I normally just use DHCP everywhere I connect. But sometimes I need special configs for networks that don’t have a DHCP server running. The problem with those special configs is that they just waste time when you need to go back to the office or your home network. Nothing works and it takes you a few minutes to remember you hosed your network settings to connect to some obscure network somewhere.

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