Network.request to local ip now working

I am running Xampp in my laptop. 

When I host a file in my local server, and try to network.request from another machine running Corona (or) from a device build from a device, (say using my local ip 192.168.1.106) the network.request always fails.  

This used to work in earlier builds, but in the latest build (2185) this no longer works.

Is this a bug?