Hi Chris!
Is that shell inside the dev container, after you run okteto up?
Remember that when you are inside the dev container, you need to rerun your app so that the server accepts the connections.
Let’s say you have a node application: once you run okteto up you’ll then have to get the server up with something like node start.
If you want to run curl commands inside the dev pod at the same time you are developing your app, you should check out the okteto exec command