My app that is using Retrofit (v1.6.1) to connect to REST web services cannot connect to my local web server (running on localhost), this is the error I am getting.
This is inside Nexus4 (v4.3) emulator, I am using Android Studio for development and I have added android.permission.INTERNET & android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE permissions in manifest file.
The error says its waited for 15s but it does not, it errors out right away.
07-13 15:57:53.947 820-840/it.test.android.app.activity D/Retrofit: ---> HTTP POST http://localhost:3000/app/auth/signin 07-13 15:57:54.132 820-840/it.test.android.app.activity D/Retrofit: Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 07-13 15:57:54.132 820-840/it.test.android.app.activity D/Retrofit: Content-Length: 44 07-13 15:57:54.157 820-840/it.test.android.app.activity D/Retrofit: {"auth":{"email":"steve","password":"pass"}} 07-13 15:57:54.387 820-840/it.test.android.app.activity D/Retrofit: ---> END HTTP (44-byte body) 07-13 15:57:54.657 820-840/it.test.android.app.activity D/Retrofit: ---- ERROR http://localhost:3000/app/auth/signin 07-13 15:57:54.857 820-840/it.test.android.app.activity D/Retrofit: java.net.ConnectException: failed to connect to localhost/127.0.0.1 (port 3000) after 15000ms: isConnected failed: ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused) at libcore.io.IoBridge.isConnected(IoBridge.java:223) at libcore.io.IoBridge.connectErrno(IoBridge.java:161) at libcore.io.IoBridge.connect(IoBridge.java:112) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:192) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:459) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:842) at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.<init>(HttpConnection.java:76) at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.<init>(HttpConnection.java:50) at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection$Address.connect(HttpConnection.java:340) at libcore.net.http.HttpConnectionPool.get(HttpConnectionPool.java:87) at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.connect(HttpConnection.java:128) at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.openSocketConnection(HttpEngine.java:316) at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.connect(HttpEngine.java:311) at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.sendSocketRequest(HttpEngine.java:290) at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.sendRequest(HttpEngine.java:240) at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.connect(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:81) at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:197) at retrofit.client.UrlConnectionClient.prepareRequest(UrlConnectionClient.java:68) at retrofit.client.UrlConnectionClient.execute(UrlConnectionClient.java:37) at retrofit.RestAdapter$RestHandler.invokeRequest(RestAdapter.java:321) at retrofit.RestAdapter$RestHandler.access$100(RestAdapter.java:220) at retrofit.RestAdapter$RestHandler$2.obtainResponse(RestAdapter.java:278) at retrofit.CallbackRunnable.run(CallbackRunnable.java:42) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1080) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:573) at retrofit.Platform$Android$2$1.run(Platform.java:142) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:841) Caused by: libcore.io.ErrnoException: isConnected failed: ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused) at libcore.io.IoBridge.isConnected(IoBridge.java:208) at libcore.io.IoBridge.connectErrno(IoBridge.java:161) at libcore.io.IoBridge.connect(IoBridge.java:112) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:192) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:459) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:842) at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.<init>(HttpConnection.java:76) at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.<init>(HttpConnection.java:50) at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection$Address.connect(HttpConnection.java:340) at libcore.net.http.HttpConnectionPool.get(HttpConnectionPool.java:87) at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.connect(HttpConnection.java:128) at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.openSocketConnection(HttpEngine.java:316) at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.connect(HttpEngine.java:311) at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.sendSocketRequest(HttpEngine.java:290) at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.sendRequest(HttpEngine.java:240) at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.connect(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:81) at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:197) at retrofit.client.UrlConnectionClient.prepareRequest(UrlConnectionClient.java:68) at retrofit.client.UrlConnectionClient.execute(UrlConnectionClient.java:37) at retrofit.RestAdapter$RestHandler.invokeRequest(RestAdapter.java:321) at retrofit.RestAdapter$RestHandler.access$100(RestAdapter.java:220) at retrofit.RestAdapter$RestHandler$2.obtainResponse(RestAdapter.java:278) at retrofit.CallbackRunnable.run(CallbackRunnable.java:42) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1080) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:573) at retrofit.Platform$Android$2$1.run(Platform.java:142) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:841) 07-13 15:57:54.857 820-840/it.test.android.app.activity D/Retrofit: ---- END ERROR