On 31.12.2010, at 00:25, Łukasz Rekucki wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure about resolution for this ticket[1]. Initially this looks
> like a regression. On the other hand, it was never documented that
> "runserver" accepted anything other than an IP:port pair.
> 
> I don't know how many people actually used that feature (I never did),
> but it seems like it was a bit accidental. As we are speaking about a
> development server, I don't find this feature very useful as (most of
> the time) you want to run it on a host-only address, which won't have
> many aliases other than "localhost". You could add more in your
> "hosts" file or have a DNS on intranet map to your machine, but it
> sounds like a really rare case.

This was definitely undocumented and to my knowledge not suggested by other 
Django related literature. In that sense the fix in r14711 should be seen as a 
welcome correction of a fuzzy behaviour.

Jannis

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