How do I get Fiddler to stop ignoring traffic to localhost?

Question

When using Fiddler to monitor HTTP Requests & Responses in Internet Explorer it ignores all traffic directed to http://localhost.

Answer 1

Fiddler's website addresses this question directly.

There are several suggested workarounds, but the most straightforward is simply to use the machine name rather than "localhost" or "127.0.0.1":

http://machinename/mytestpage.aspx