What is the advantage of having a domain name (spotilocal) that resolves to 127.0.0.1?

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Not sure if this is best suited to Programmers, Server Fault or Stack Overflow. It\'s not, however, a question about developing for Facebook.

Answer 1

the biggest reason for us when designing it was so that it would work with https without a mixed-content warning. Getting a cert for a real domain is a lot easier than getting one for 127.0.0.1.