Konqueror can't connect to http://localhost/ if eth0 down

[Derek Broughton]

Does anybody have a clue what the mechanism is that prevents Konqueror
finding _any_ website if there's no active network connection?

The 'lo' interface is up: 
# ifconfig lo
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:14598707 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14598707 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2044771500 (1.9 GiB)  TX bytes:2044771500 (1.9 GiB)

Both Firefox and telnet will happily connect to my local web server on
localhost:80, yet konqueror says:

"Could not connect to host http://localhost/."

I _do_ need to be testing this stuff on Firefox, but I'd far rather use it
only as a final check - firefox is too much of a resource pig to want to
run it all the time.
-- 
derek