Google APIs Explorer posting to remote API instead of local - eclipse

I'm currently developing a (Java) backend for a mobile application using Google App Engine (SDK v1.8.8) and Cloud Endpoints. I'm using Eclipse (Kepler) with Google Plugin (v3.8.0) to develop/deploy the code.
I've been using Google API's explorer for many months during the development to test the endpoints and up until yesterday, everything was working well... if I ran App Engine locally, I could test the endpoints at:
http://localhost:8888/_ah/api/explorer
Likewise, I could execute against the remotely deployed version at:
https://1-dot-[my-app-id]-app.appspot.com/_ah/api/explorer
...in both cases, everything worked as expected.
However, as of yesterday, local execution no longer works... instead, my requests are sent to the remote (i.e. live!) version of my API. I'm still accessing API Explorer on localhost and according to it's output, my requests are still being posted locally... here is what is printed when I execute a function 'foo' on 'admin' endpoint:
Request
POST `http://localhost:8888/_ah/api/adminendpoint/v1/foo`
X-JavaScript-User-Agent: Google APIs Explorer
However, for some reason, these requests are being sent to the live/deployed instance of the API.
I restarted my browser (Chrome) and cleared it's cache, tried another browser (Safari), restarted the machine, re-deployed the API... It feels like something is being cached somewhere but I'm running out of ideas.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

The error has been fixed in the Google App Engine SDK for Java version 1.9.17, as indicated in the release notes (https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkForJavaReleaseNotes). I updated my libraries to 1.9.17, and the APIs explorer started working again for localhost.

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