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

If you are trying to access localhost api through emulator, Change localhost to your IPV4 Address. And if you are running your api in Visual Studio set the app URL also to be IPV4 address. In my case I changed it from "localhost:5001" to 192.168.XX.XX:5001

if you don't change the backend it will return “Bad Request-Invalid Hostname” When accessing localhost from emulators