Webware / localhost vs. real IP address

Patrick Useldinger p at trick.lu
Sun Feb 15 14:37:41 EST 2004


On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:04:50 +0100, "Diez B. Roggisch"
<deets_noospaam at web.de> wrote:

>Yes - sockets that are connected to '' listen to all local addresses, while
>localhost listens only to 127.0.0.1 - this is somewhat misleading described
>in the socket module. So I guess you should configure webware in a way that
>its listening on '', not on localhost.

I was mislead by the fact that 127.0.0.1 == 192.168.1.2 in my case.
While this is logically true, the addresses are obviously still
considered physically different
Thank you.

-PU
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