webscarab error when loading localhost.webgoat.attack

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. trying to load localhost.webgoat.attack
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
expected output is the page to load instead im seeing

WebScarab encountered an error trying to retrieve

GET http://localhost.webgoat.attack:80/ HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost.webgoat.attack
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
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
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive

The error was :

localhost.webgoat.attack
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
    at org.owasp.webscarab.httpclient.URLFetcher.connect(URLFetcher.java:412)
    at org.owasp.webscarab.httpclient.URLFetcher.fetchResponse(URLFetcher.java:229)
    at org.owasp.webscarab.plugin.proxy.RevealHidden$Plugin.fetchResponse(RevealHidden.java:100)
    at org.owasp.webscarab.plugin.proxy.ManualEdit$Plugin.fetchResponse(ManualEdit.java:243)
    at org.owasp.webscarab.plugin.proxy.ConnectionHandler.run(ConnectionHandler.java:233)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
im using webgoat 5.3_rc1 on vista

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by m.t.mche...@gmail.com on 18 Nov 2011 at 12:55

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Original comment by mayhe...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2012 at 11:02

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Um, this is not a WebScarab problem. The URL is not 
http://localhost.webgoat.attack/, the URL is http://localhost/attack.

No surprise that Webscarab could not find the host.

Original comment by rogan.da...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2012 at 6:13

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Original comment by mayhe...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2012 at 4:32

• Changed state: Invalid