On 7/27/05, Jason Rumney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Multiple users can start servers on the same machine, so assigning a
> "standard" port is likely to conflict. It is better to let the socket
> library choose a free socket. The client will be reading it from a file
> anyway, so the user does not need to know what port has been chosen.

OK but, what about connecting to a remote server? You don't need read
access to the filesystem to do it, do you? How's that currently done?

> Stefan's spec above already includes the hostname.

Yeah, you're right. Sorry.

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