ECONNREFUSED error with node.js that does not occur in other clients

Question

I\'m making an http request with the node.js client, and I get an ECONNREFUSED error. When I make what appears to be the same request

Answer 1

I disagree with Soman's disagreement.

I've been pulling my hair out on this one, but yes, sure enough nodejs v0.10.24 and v0.10.25 refuse to connect to a PHP 5.4 development server (PHP's command line server) when invoked as:

php -S localhost:8088

The browser, curl, everything else connects just fine. Yet, sure enough, changing the binding address to be:

php -S 127.0.0.1:8088 

And nodejs' using xmlrpc connects just fine. This occurred on a Mac OS X 10.9.1. Very odd.