socket.SO_REUSEADDR

[Michael Ströder]

HI!

For avoiding problems with errors like

  socket.error: (98, 'Address already in use.')

during immediate restart of my web server I'm following the hint to
set the socket option SO_REUSEADDR. But I did not succeed. The
server starts and works. When I stop it and try to restart
immediately the above message appears again. I had a short look at
man 7 socket and man setsockopt but this was a little bit too much
for me...

Ciao, Michael.

My code looks like this:

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class MyHTTPServer(SocketServer.TCPServer):

  def server_bind(self):
    """Override server_bind to set socket options."""
    self.socket.setsockopt(
      socket.getprotobyname('tcp'),
      socket.SO_REUSEADDR,1
    )
    SocketServer.TCPServer.server_bind(self)
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