PHP & XAMPP file_get_contents

Mogoče kdo ve zakaj mi v PHP-ju ne dela file_get_contents, če zahtevam neko stran na localhostu?

npr:
Tole dela

<?php 
$page = file_get_contents('http://example.com');
echo $page;
?>

tole pa ne
Tole dela

<?php 
$page = file_get_contents('http://localhost/podstran');
echo $page;
?>

vrne pa napako

file_get_contents(http://localhost/podstran) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. in D:\xampplite\htdocs\karlos\podstran\my_functions.php on line 303

pomoje bi blo treba XAMPP skonfigurirat da sta 127.0.0.1 in localhost loopback naslova. Samo ugibam, XAMPP nisem se nikoli uporabljal

Ja, vse zgleda vredu

GET /xampp/ HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:00:58 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.6 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.5
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Content-Length: 604
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html

Deluje localhost na portu 80?

Ja

Oziroma če v hosts datoteki odkomentiram vrstico

127.0.0.1 localhost

potem tudi PHP dela z localhost

Hehe te vrstice ni fino met zakomentirane

Ja po defaultu pač je (Win 7).

Hja, v Win 7 naj ne bi bila več potrebna, ja. Ampak očitno je...

A ni tako, da je po standardu localhost loopback na 127.0.0.1?

Zakaj bi to v Win7 odstranili mi ni jasno ...