SimpleXMLRPCServer and client IP address

[Jeremy Monnet]

Thanks for your answer !

On 6/28/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> maybe the explanation in that message was good enough for the poster ?

I think so ... unfortunately not for me ... yet ! :-)

>
>     Your handler object should be getting set up with the client_address property.
>     If not you need to show us some small subset of your app that demonstrates the
>     issue.
>
>     You can also inherit from SimpleXMLRPCServer and override verify_request, from
>     BaseServer, if you want the option of blocking requests based on source
>     address.
>
> the second alternative should be straightforward enough:
>
>     class MyXMLRPCServer(SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer):
>         def verify_request(self, request, client_address):
>             return CheckPerms(client_address)
>
>     server = MyXMLRPCServer(...)
>     ...
>
> if you need more control, you need to subclass SimpleXMLRPCHandler instead.


this seems easy, but I'm not sure I could use it : I already provide
more than one method (of course not in the snippet of code I provided,
my mistake probably not to show it) and I plan to add several more in
the near future. Overloading verify_request() in this way means I
can't use the same xmlrpcserver for other methods ? Or am I just wrong
? (I should probably have a look at "request", maybe that's a key ?)
Or is it the "more control" you talked about ?

Jeremy
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