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I am not sure if this is a bug of extbrowser or httpserver, I expect the later... Often I get to a situation when the conversion of nbfs URL is not done correctly. I start nb on a laptop, select html file and try to view it using external browser. In my one case I recieve URL starting with "http://nb:8083/...." and in seconde "http://jana:8082/..." that is ok, but I actually needed the address to be nb.jst in first case and I do not which address in the second case (you know notebooks need to work in more than one network...). I am able to get around this problem by changing _eachtime_ the URL in explorer by hand (localhost or 127.0.0.1 is usally fine). Bad, but works for me, but does not work for other people around me I want to use the IDE... So I searched Tools/Option to specify API address for the HTTP server, but there is no such option... Please either fix the bug that the address is not accurate or add option when I can set it up. Thanks.
The problem is usually in browser configuration - if you set proxy you need to correctly specify list of bypassed hosts. I am not sure about additional option - extbrowser is client that asks httpserver for URL so we would need to add something like 'machine identification' to httpserver options. The possibilities are hostname obtained from InetAddress.getLocalHost.getName(), "localhost", 127.0.0.1. Is the nbui proper place for such discussion? Can you send your idea here?
Posted to nbui with suggestions to how to add the property.
Adjusting priority
Set target milestone to TBD
Reassigning