curl Failed to connect to localhost port 80

Question

My hosts file maps 127.0.0.1 to localhost.

$ curl -I \'localhost\'
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 80: Connection re         


        

Answer 1

I also had problem with refused connection on port 80. I didn't use localhost.

curl --data-binary "@/textfile.txt" "http://www.myserver.com/123.php"

Problem was that I had umlauts äåö in my textfile.txt.