Our application uses the PayPal api, in order to test it PayPal needs to be able to post data to a serlvet on our servers. This is no problem in production however when running in GWT-Dev mode I cannot seem to get GWT to work through my home router. GWT is running on port 8888 and I have added the needed firewall rules to get this to work.
Does GWT somehow stop requests from working from outside the local area network? I tried -bindAddress 192.167.x.x but it did not work.
For security reasons the jetty server used in gwt dev mode only binds to localhost.
If you want to bind it to all intefaces use the parameter -bindAddress 0.0.0.0
To make sure the servlets are reachable try to connect from a different host on your network (e.g. with Telnet).