Can I use Hosts with eDexter and WebWasher?
You can use all three without any trouble. Here is a somewhat simplified but lengthy explanation: Your browser will ask the hosts file how to find a www address when you type one in and want to go there. If hosts knows, it will then go there or block the site, depending on how you set it up. If you have a site blocked, your browser asks the localhost (127.0.0.1) address for the information. This will bring eDexter into action. eDexter will pretend to be the blocked server and respond to your browser – but all it will do is send an image and nothing else. That doesn’t matter, as your browser will think it talked to the blocked server and go on loading the rest of the page. In this scenario, neither WebWasher nor the web will be accessed at all. You do need to be sure you check the box “bypass proxy server for local addresses” in your browser options though. If you have not blocked the www address you are trying to go to with hosts, then your browser will send its request for the page th
