On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 20:35:30 -0700 (PDT), Scott C. Best wrote:
>Dan:
> Heh. :) The best reason I've heard of why unix-IPC
>sockets aren't supported in Java is that it would make
>the Java code run-on-Unix rather than run-anywhere. And,
>hey, some Windmills should be left alone...
>
> In practice, I use it to connect some ASP pages
>running on my server with some network management software.
>The use of TCP or UDP sockets isn't advisable here, since
>the port it opens is externally accessible. And for a
>firewall, for example, that'd be bad.
Note that you can open a port and listen only on 127.0.0.1
(that is, not on all addresses but only on the specific address)
Since 127.0.0.1 is localhost it makes it relatively secure (unless
you let source-routed packets go to the 127.0.0.1 address, but
then you have other problems in your firewall setup.
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