Json-rpc fails with "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it"

Json-rpc fails with "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it"

Playing around with litecoin json-rpc running on windows (the API is the same as bitcoin, so I am using bitcoin's references).

My litecoin.conf has the following data:

rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=pass
txindex=1

Based on the documentation I started the core client as .\litecoind.exe -server, and it looks like it works just fine because I can run various commands from another window (.\litecoin-cli.exe getblockcount and many other work as expected).

Now I wanted to make some json-rpc calls and I tried Go's library which bitcoin's developers recommend. I used the example from that library's github and the only modifications which I introduced were my user and pass in the definition of the ConnConfig.

The code fails during the execution of client.GetBlockCount() with an error:

Post http://localhost:8332: dial tcp [::1]:8332: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

I think that the problem is with json-rpc server but I have no idea how to verify that it works properly. Any idea how to fix it?

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