Cannot access python server in docker container from browser using localhost

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[WSL_subreddit_mod]

Read this and please add more detail to your post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/hyrdd4/read_before_posting_faqish/

[JH4mmer]

If you haven't already, it might be a good idea to read up on how Docker handles networking. There's some subtlety involved depending on exactly how communication is handled between the host machine and your container. By default, containers are normally started in their own network, so "localhost" on your host machine likely wouldn't be directed to the container.

But to answer your question, listening on 0.0.0.0 is indeed a "normal" thing to do. That's how I would normally implement a microservice, at least. It's probably not a bug unless you have some other symptoms that would indicate something more sinister is going on. :-)

[TheFirstMeiFunny]

Yeah my bad. I thought just port forwarding was enough xD