How to point to localhost:8000 with the Dart http package in Flutter?

Question

I\'m following the Flutter Networking/HTTP tutorial to do a GET request to a server running on my localhost:8000. Visiting my localhost via my browser works fine. My code lo

Answer 1

Localhost via the computer browser I assume?

Using "http://localhost:port" in the Flutter code points to the local emulator device and not the local server running on your coomputer.

Point url to the IP Address of your server machine instead, that should solve the issue.