IE 11 problems opening localhost

Question

I can not figure this out, I've been writing web sites for a while now and never ran into anything like this. I am debugging a .Net MVC web application and trying to get to it in Internet Explorer 11. When I type in http://localhost:4718 or localhost:4718 I get the error

"No apps are installed to open this type of link(localhost)"

I am positive port 4718 is what I want it works in every other browser . This is just an IE 11 with Windows 8 thing that I can not figure out. I saw in another question to disable "Enable Enhanced Protection Mode" in advanced settings. This did not help

Answer 1

Typing localhost:4718 makes IE think that you're trying to open a protocol that is coincidentally named localhost. Thus you should always use the longer form http://localhost:4718/ or at least //localhost:4718/.

You absolutely shouldn't be seeing the same error for the full URL; if you are, go to a command prompt and type ping localhost and copy its results in your question.