On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Malte Forkel <malte.for...@berlin.de> wrote: > Most of the application's functionality uses the telnet connection to > communicate with the server. One special operation is not available in > the protocol, but can be implemented by a direct file-based operation if > the application is run on the server itself. I would like to use that > option if technically feasible.
There is another way you might be able to do this. The server could simply create a cookie in the file system - say, a file in /tmp with a randomly-generated name - and it can announce that to the client. If the client sees the same file in what it sees as /tmp, then it can assume that it's running on the server. Obviously there's a miniscule probability of an accidental collision, and someone could deliberately fool it, but for a simple check, that might work. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
