How do I access the host machine itself from the iPhone simulator

Question

I\'m developing an app that connects to a web service for most of it\'s operations. As a shortcut, I\'d like to run a copy of my development server on my machine. Question i

Answer 1

The iOS Simulator uses the host machine network so you should be able to just use localhost or your machines IP address, whichever IP your web service is listening on.

Answer 2

In swift 5 just call:

http://localhost:<port>/file_path 

but you will need to add this part to the project Info.plist.

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
    <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
        <true/>
</dict>  

Otherwise this error is going to happen.

Cannot start load of Task <xx-xx>.<x> since it does not conform to ATS policy.