Ted Zeng wrote:
> HI,
>
> I run a xml_rpc server like the following:(sample code from internet)
>
> server = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000))
> server.serve_forever()
>
> If my client is on the same machine, I use :(also from internet sample
> code)
>
> server = xmlrpclib.Server('http://localhost:8000')
> print server.chop_in_half('I am a confidant guy')
>
> This works fine.
>
> But if I use server's ip address instead of localhost in the client,
> then it could not access the server.
>
> server = xmlrpclib.Server('http://machine_ip_address:8000')
> print server.chop_in_half('I am a confidant guy')
>
>
> How can my client (runs on other machine) access the server? The server
> runs on a machine with dynamic IP. But my client knows the IP address.
>
You are explicitly telling your server ONLY to listen on the loopback
interface. Try using an empty string as IP address instead:
server = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer(("", 8000))
That will tell it to listen on all interfaces:
regards
Steve
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