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Why is "It works!" showing up at my http://127.0.0.1 (localhost)?

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So, I was playing around with Java sockets, servers and streams, the other day, and I decided, purely out of curiosity, expecting no good results, to open Google Chrome and navigate to 127.0.0.1, and lo and behold, I come across an actual page! The page source is I got hit with an epiphany that I cā€¦

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<html><body><h1>It works!</h1></body></html>

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Fix for: Why is "It works!" showing up at my http://127.0.0.1 (localhost)?

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This is default behavior in OSX when you enable the web server in the properties. You can find it in this control pane:

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