29 Jan
2004
29 Jan
'04
9:05 a.m.
Ignas Mikalajunas i.mikalajunas@mbt.lt writes:
I am not absolutely sure yet i think that it is impossible to connect to a swank server running not on a "localhost". All of the functions that should be taking a host as a parameter are using "localhost" instead of host. Is it a feature or a bug ?
It's lazyness :-)
The SWANK port should be bound to the loopback device, for security reasons. "localhost" is usually the loopback device and with most socket interfaces a bit easier to access. It shouldn't be difficult to add a host or ip argument to the current functions. It's just not done yet.
Helmut.