Greetings. I spent the morning trying to find out why the disabled tests in test_xmlrpc.py ran so slowly on my vista box. After much digging, I found that it boiled down to socket.create_connection() trying to connect to "localhost", port.
You see, it does a getaddrinfo() and then tries to connect using all the various addresses it finds until it succeeds. On Vista, it will return an AF_INET6 entry before the AF_INET one and try connection to that. This connect() attemt fails after approximately one second, after which we proceed to do an immediately successful connect() call to the AF_INET address. Now, I did fix this in test_xmlrpc.py by just speficying the loopback address, but I wonder if this might not be a problem in general? I can think of two things to make this better: 1) Make sure that AF_INET addresses are tried first in socket.create_connection() 2) Have the SocketServer create a listening socket for each address family by default. Any thoughts? K
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