If I read/write to a TCP socket that is on localhost, will that avoid firewalls?

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Published on 2010-05-06T03:06:27Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 3:08 UTC
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If I want to open a TCP socket between 2 processes on the same computer, will having the server run on localhost and the client connect on localhost be safe from any firewall intervention?

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