Failure to connect in SimpleXMLRPCServer/xmlrpclib

[iu2]

On Oct 22, 10:21 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> iu2 wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I've copied the example of RPC usage from the Python's doc.
> > When the client and server were on the same PC ("localhost") (I use
> > Windows)
> > it worked ok. But putting the server on a different PC raised the
> > error:
>
> > gaierror: (11001, 'getaddrinfo failed')
> > The error was raised upion accessing some function of the server,
> > i.e.,
> > print s.add_nums(1, 2, 3)  # server registered function
>
> > PCs in our organization are accessed by "\\<name>" so I used
>
> > s = xmlrpclib.Server(r'http://\\pc_name:8000')
> > I got the same error when I put some non-existing name.
> > Trying to remove the double-backslash from the PC's name raised the
> > error:
> > error: (10061, 'Connection refused')
>
> > I'll appreciate your help on this.
>
> Maybe using the IP-address helps?
>
> Diez- Hide quoted text -
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No, that doesn't help either.
May be I don't use it right.
I tried "http://1.2.3.4:8000"
and
r"http://\\1.2.3.4:8000"

with no success.