[issue39211] Change in http.server default IP behavior?

[Shane]

Shane <shanesmith4 at gmail.com> added the comment:

Jason, thank you for the primer.

> Nevertheless, when I tried the same thing on my Windows machine, I got a different outcome. The server bound to [::0] but was unreachable on http://127.0.0.1:8000.

Perhaps it's an issue with IPv4 addresses in general for Python 3.8 on Windows when they are not directly bound during invocation of the server.  I used to be able to reach the server with http://<my_ipv4_address>:8080/ (this was my initial surprise), but now this behavior doesn't work for me.  However, on further testing http://<my_ipv6_address>:8080/ DOES work.

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status: pending -> open

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