Le 31 oct. 2014 à 16:19, Sven Van Caekenberghe a écrit :

> Hi Christophe,
> 
>> On 31 Oct 2014, at 14:21, Christophe Demarey <christophe.dema...@inria.fr> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I just tried to get a simple Zinc server running on the standard HTTP port 
>> (80) and it is not working.
>>      ZnServer startDefaultOn: 80
>> My image was run with a standard user. As the standard HTTP port is a 
>> privileged port (each port number < 1024 is a privileged port), I tried to 
>> run it through sudo.
>> It is not working with PharoLauncher (loss of permissions with the process 
>> fork?) but works by running the image directly.
> 
> So basically, it works. Good. I never tried that. I/we always put a proxy in 
> front for production deploys.
> 
>> The thing that is strange to me is that if I try to run Zinc on a port with 
>> not enough permissions, I do not get an error. I saw a test of the socket 
>> validity in ZnNetworkingUtils>>serverSocketOn: but I think it is not 
>> catching the permissions problem. Is it difficult to detect? If not, it 
>> would be good to have an exception if the specified port cannot be used.
> 
> There is ZnServer>>#isListening that tries to do that. In the end it comes 
> down to what is available to the Socket API and how it behave across 
> different platforms. You can access the server socket with #serverSocket.

Yes, I think it is a limitation of the Socket API.

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