graphite-project/graphite-web — pull request #1069 by steve-dave (2014-12-29 03:00:48+00:00)
Title: Bypass loopback prevention for deliberate loopbacks

Sometimes you may want to query a separate local graphite-web instance and if you have configured one or more of your clusters hosts with a hostname of localhost or an IP of 127.x.x.x then this would be the case so with this patch it is treated as a remote host.