diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index ee08498..8ce6722 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -60,4 +60,5 @@ Thanks To
 * David Ziegler, reporting issue #53
 * Favo Yang, twisted hub patch
 * Schmir, patch that fixes readline method with chunked encoding in wsgi.py
-* Slide, for open-sourcing gogreen
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+* Slide, for open-sourcing gogreen
+* Holger Krekel, websocket example small fix
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diff --git a/examples/websocket.html b/examples/websocket.html
index c6ee68c..cea6a20 100644
--- a/examples/websocket.html
+++ b/examples/websocket.html
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ http://assorted.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/assorted/real-time-plotter/trunk/src/
 <script>
 window.onload = function() {
     var data = {};
-    var s = new WebSocket("ws://localhost:7000/data");
+    var s = new WebSocket("ws://127.0.0.1:7000/data");
     s.onopen = function() { 
         //alert('open');
         s.send('hi');
diff --git a/examples/websocket.py b/examples/websocket.py
index ae8181f..ed81701 100644
--- a/examples/websocket.py
+++ b/examples/websocket.py
@@ -35,6 +35,6 @@ def dispatch(environ, start_response):
         
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     # run an example app from the command line            
-    listener = eventlet.listen(('localhost', 7000))
+    listener = eventlet.listen(('127.0.0.1', 7000))
     print "\nVisit http://localhost:7000/ in your websocket-capable browser.\n"
     wsgi.server(listener, dispatch)