It's okay; I'm used to every now and then opening port 80 in the
firewall when working with Apache (web server).
I guess then, there's something wrong with the GAE dev env. because I
never had that connection problem with Apache regardless of how I
access it and from what browser.

On Jan 23, 9:38 pm, Bryce Cutt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Glad that helped.
>
> When you run the server without an (--address) argument it only
> listens on localhost (127.0.0.1) and is not accessible by other
> computers but when you specify an address the server becomes
> accessible to other computers over the network and your firewall
> detects that and prompts you. Keep in mind that if you tell your
> firewall to allow all traffic to the dev server then other users on
> your network could access it (whether this is good or bad depends on
> who is on your network).
>
> On Jan 23, 7:19 pm, MdeA <[email protected]> wrote:
>
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> > Yep, that does it. Weird!
> > When I tried to start the application I got a message from Windows
> > Firewall and I had to "allow" access to pythonw.exe...I never got that
> > message before, so I guess the --address=0.0.0.0 triggers it.
> > Thanks a lot.
>
> > On Jan 23, 7:30 pm, Bryce Cutt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I have run into this issue before.
>
> > > The dev server only handles one request at a time. This problem could
> > > have something to do with the browser making multiple requests to the
> > > server at the same time (like Chrome often does) or it could be that
> > > you used a different browser to connect to the server and that browser
> > > has created a persistent connection.
>
> > > I found that if I use the argument "--address=0.0.0.0" when starting
> > > the dev server (so that it listens on all addresses) and then I access
> > > the dev server by the computers actual IP address (instead of using
> > > localhost or 127.0.0.1) you don't run into this issue. YMMV.
>
> > > On Jan 23, 6:06 pm, MdeA <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > I just got a new PC with Win7 64-bit and IE9.
> > > > Now when I request some pages in IE9 from my dev environment it hangs
> > > > and while that happens all the other browsers are not able to request
> > > > any page from the application until I stop it and start it again.
>
> > > > It is only in the dev environment because once deployed IE9 can load
> > > > all pages from the live website without any issues, but I'd like to be
> > > > able to see how my app works with IE before I deploy it.
>
> > > > Any ideas?
> > > > Thanks.

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