Python 2.0.1 bug?

[Gordon McMillan]

[posted and mailed]

TheDustbustr) wrote: 

[snip]

> HOST = ''     # empty string meaning localhost

It means INADDR_ANY (it's visible from outside, unlike localhost).

[snip]

> while 1:
>     conn, addr = s.accept()
>     print 'Connected by', addr
>     data = conn.recv(1024)
>     print data
>     conn.send(data)     # reference point 1
>     conn.close()

[snip]

> When you run this program then point your webbrowser to localhost:8080,
> you SHOULD see your GET / HTTP/1.1 request echoed to the screen (the
> "webpage"), as well as echoed to the console.  Well, under Python 1.5.2
> running under Linux, it does.  Running 2.0.1 under Windows 95, it
> doesn't, *nothing* is printed to the webbrowser.  

Try it with the same browser. The problem may be
that on Windows 95, your browser is doing HTTP/1.1 but
on Linux it's doing HTTP/1.0. Socket handling is different
between the two.

Or it could be that your Windows browser is waiting to see a proper
HTTP response, but your Linux browser is being "forgiving".

Browsers are notoriously difficult beasts, so I would definitely
look there first.

- Gordon