cypress e2e cy.request() failed trying to load http://localhost:9001/ Error: socket hang up

[pmatsibekker]

I am able to open electron browser directly to my webpack dev server ui on port 9001 but cypress is failing on
cy.request('http://localhost:9001/',{timeout:10000})

Seems like it doesn't wait the 10 seconds and just fails close to immediately.
I am able to run to other hosts and even connect to other rest controller ports on localhost...just seems to be issue with webpack dev server connect.