IE11 unable to connect to local IIS, other browsers work fine

Question

I\'m using the XIP.IO wildcard domain to access a website running on a local IIS server.

Today, IE 11 stopped accessing the site, whilst Chrome and Firefox continued to

Answer 1

The easiest way to make IE11 work with localhost on windows 8 is by going in the internet options > Security and drop all those bars to the lowest level and disable Protected Mode. I'm only using IE11 to see if my developed websites work correctly, not for browsing the internet. For that I have Chrome/Firefox.