[Zope] - win95 TCP/IP

[Butch Landingin]

>
>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 got the same problem as you did :( (except I have Win98 and I had
this thing where the DUN connection dialog box would come up and ask
me if I wanted to connect to the internet -- cancelling it would cause
the code to fail!).

Here's the good news though: I fixed it (I can't guarantee the
reliability of this quick hack, though :(). I modified the
BaseHTTPServer.py file by commenting out the offending code (starting
from line #97,BaseHTTPServer.py which shows up in the error message)
and adding the last line (hostname = host). This is inside the class
HTTPServer in the server_bind method :

        ...
        #hostname, hostnames, hostaddrs = socket.gethostbyaddr(host)
        #if '.' not in hostname:
        #    for host in hostnames:
        #        if '.' in host:
        #           hostname = host
        #            break
        hostname = host
        ...

I think the reason why this fails is because the
socket.gethostbyaddr() call tries to bring up some network tcpip and
won't work on a stand-alone Wintel system  that doesn't have a network
device installed (It did'nt matter that I had a hosts.txt file). All
the other socket calls work though. I had an old notebook with a
PCMCIA network/modem combo card and I never had a problem so I guess
it had something to do with Windows detecting a network device on your
system.

Hope this works...

BTW, You can then access this site with http://127.0.0.1:8080 ...


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