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  • Committer: Package Import Robot
  • Author(s): Matthias Klose
  • Date: 2013-05-15 19:15:16 UTC
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A couple things to notice: we used ``socket.gethostname()`` so that the socket
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would be visible to the outside world. If we had used ``s.bind(('', 80))`` or
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``s.bind(('localhost', 80))`` or ``s.bind(('127.0.0.1', 80))`` we would still
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have a "server" socket, but one that was only visible within the same machine.
 
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would be visible to the outside world.  If we had used ``s.bind(('localhost',
 
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80))`` or ``s.bind(('127.0.0.1', 80))`` we would still have a "server" socket,
 
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but one that was only visible within the same machine.  ``s.bind(('', 80))``
 
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specifies that the socket is reachable by any address the machine happens to
 
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have.
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A second thing to note: low number ports are usually reserved for "well known"
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services (HTTP, SNMP etc). If you're playing around, use a nice high number (4