[This is a crossposting from c.l.p to the zope@zope.org mailing list, since it contains a problem report and a proposal/question concerning both] On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:57:32 GMT, befletch@my-dejanews.com wrote: [...]

I found I have to use my machine's numeric IP address, not 'localhost' as the docs indicate.

Do you get the long response times even *with* using your localhost's IP address? I once had a similar problem with response times even up to a minute for each HTTP request, and I found out that it was due to the logging mechanism in the standard library's BaseHTTPServer.py: BaseHTTPRequestHandler.log_message calls the address_string function, which does a reverse name lookup of the request's IP address. If neither yout DNS nor the etc/hosts table (it lives in \WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on a NT machine, don't know about 95/98) are configured correctly, timeouts occur on each request. There are two calls to address_string in Zope, one in BaseHTTPRequestHandler.log_message and one in ZopeHTTPServer.BoboRequestHandler.get_environment Both can be changed to self.client_address[0], so that only IP addresses are used for logging and the REMOTE_HOST environment variable is never set. What I would appreciate is to make this behaviour configurable, but it would require changes to both BaseHTTPRequestHandler and BoboRequestHandler. Any ideas? Stefan