watir-webdriver hack (maybe only a problem on Windows 7)

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# Original solution found as part of this discussion:
# http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=4020

# This is a monkey patch (aka HACK!) to get watir-webdriver to run on Windows 7.  
# This works with watir-webdriver v0.6.1 / selenium-webdriver v2.25.x and may need to be revisited when using later versions
module Selenium
  module WebDriver
    module Platform

      module_function

      def interfaces
        interfaces = Socket.getaddrinfo("localhost", 8080).map { |e| e[3] }
        # fix the problem of binding IPv6
        interfaces.delete("0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1")
        interfaces += ["0.0.0.0", Platform.ip]

        interfaces.compact.uniq
      end
	end
  end
end