How to test a locally hosted(iis express) api on android simulator

Austy

l did some research and l was told l had to edit the applicationhost.config file and bind the local ip of my computer. after running ipconfig to get the ip of
my local computer(192.168.56.1) l edited the applicationhost.config file as below

    <site name="FINALKAHPROJECT" id="2">
                    <application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
                        <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\Users\SBSC QA TEAM\source\repos\FINALKAHPROJECT\FINALKAHPROJECT\FINALKAHPROJECT" />
                    </application>
                    <bindings>
                        <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:56745:localhost" />
                         <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:8080:192.168.56.1" />
                    </bindings>
                </site>

and below is the code in xamarin.forms for consuming the api

 public async void Comic()
        {
            using(var httpClient = new HttpClient()){
                var response = await httpClient.GetStringAsync("http://192.168.56.1:80/api/comic");
                var comic = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Comic>>(response);
                comicList.ItemsSource = comic;
            }
        }

l get the error System.Net.WebException: 'Failed to connect to /192.168.56.1:80' after setting the solution to start multiple projects and running the webapp and mobile app as the same time.Help Please

AlessandroCaliaro

can be this? https://www.davidbritch.com/2019/10/xamarin-connecting-to-localhost-over.html

Austy

@AlessandroCaliaro No. l dont have https issue. l just get an error will trying to consume my api in the mobile. The api works well on the web

Yelinzh

The address http://10.0.2.2:port that points to 127.0.0.1:port on your host machine. See the link. It points to an IP, not the localhost. Try to change bindingInformation from 'localhost' to '127.0.0.1' in applicationhost.config.

<binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:56745:127.0.0.1" />

Refer to: https://stackoverflow.com/a/49352345/11083277