[Zope] - win95 TCP/IP

[Jim Fulton]

Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
> I want to develop Zope apps on my Win95 notebook computer without being
> connected to the Internet. When I do so, I get the following message:
> 
>   File "C:\Temp\Paul's Site/lib/python1.5\BaseHTTPServer.py", line 97,
> in server_bind
>     hostname, hostnames, hostaddrs = socket.gethostbyaddr(host)
> socket.error: host not found
> 
> I think that on WinNT there was some kind of loopback adapter I could
> install. I can't find an equivalent for Windows 95.

If you ran ZopeHTTPServer.py directly, you could supply a host
address with the -h option:

  python ZopeHTTPServer -h 120.0.0.1 lib/python/Main

but the bad file generated by the windows binary installer doesn't
let you supply arguments.  We'll fix this for the beta 3 release.

Jim

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