RFR: JDK-8262899: TestRedirectLinks fails

[Pavel Rappo]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:26:08 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <jjg at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review a trivial change to fix this test when run behind a firewall with a proxy set.
> 
> Previously, the test used `InetAddress.getLocalHost` which returns an IP address for the current host.  It runs a temporary local web server on that address, but since the address is typically not on the `nonProxyHosts` list, the attempted access to the web server goes to the proxy, and fails.
> 
> The fix is to explicitly use `127.0.0.1`, which should never go to a proxy, if one is set.

A good place to look for network idioms would be `test/jdk/java/net`. To reliably set up both client and server, consider using `InetAddress.getLoopbackAddress()`.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3137