Web Weirdness: Probing Localhost

If you closely watch the Network tab in the Chromium Developer Tools when you try to log into Fidelity Investments, you might notice something that seems a bit weird. JavaScript on the page attempts to create WebSocket connections to a bunch of local ports on the IPv4 localhost address (127.0.0.1): Update: In modern versions ofContinue reading “Web Weirdness: Probing Localhost”