Browser cannot connect to tomcat running inside of VM

Question

So, i'm running a webserver inside of VM image (VMWare Player 5.0.1) on windows 7 SP1 64bit, and neither IE, nor Chrome load the page with the address of it: http://192.168.201.128:8080

BUT:

ping 192.168.201.128 works
telnet 192.168.201.128 8080 works, and i can GET / and see html response
i can even proxy requests to it with Nginx, using location / { proxy_pass http://192.168.201.128:8080; }, and that allows me to work around the issue.

p.s.: my colleagues run the same image in same player in same environment without any issues.

The question: what can i do to fix it in a proper way - to be able to connect directly to VM, without this hacks ?

update 1:

When looking at network inspection in Chrome, i see the 504 error:
Remote Address: 172.XX.XX.XX:8080 Request URL:http://192.168.201.128:8080/ Request Method:GET Status Code:504 Proxy Timeout ( The connection timed out. )

There are also suspicious headers in request: Proxy-Authorization:Negotiate XXXLONGHASHORKEYSTRING... and in response Via: XXX TMG (looks like Forefront TMG)

Such headers only appear when i try to connect to IPs instead of URLS, just in case of success they are fine like with google (64.233.164.113), and in case there is some error (like attempting to connect to 8.8.8.8) i'm getting 504 as well.

probably this question should be moved to SuperUser, instead of ServerFault. — c69, Aug 15 '14 at 13:51

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 07 '14 at 11:51

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Your Browsers are configured to use a proxy. To reach your local addresses, you need to disable the proxy setting.

answered Aug 07 '14 at 11:51

Felix Frank

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indeed, my bad. Simply updating list of proxy exclusion addresses have helped. – c69 Aug 15 '14 at 13:50

Browser cannot connect to tomcat running inside of VM

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