UrlFetchApp unable to access localhost resource

Question

This works fine:

var resp = UrlFetchApp.fetch(\"someremotehost/SomeFile.csv\");
resp.getResponseCode();  //returns 200
resp.getContentText();   //returns the         


        

Answer 1

Use Proxy. I had the same issue, where my app was on AWS ec2.

For that, I used nginx as proxy server and it worked.