It cost me a while to analyze the cause of the following problem.
The symptom was that testing a local web app with twill was fast
on Python 2.3, but very slow on Python 2.4-2.6 on a Win XP box.
This boiled down to the problem that if you run a SimpleHTTPServer
for localhost like this,
Quoth Christoph Zwerschke c...@online.de:
What actually happens is the following:
* BaseHTTPServer binds only to the IPv4 address of localhost, because
it's based on TCPServer which has address_family=AF_INET by default.
* HTTPConnection.connect() however tries to connect to all IP
rdmur...@bitdance.com schrieb:
Quoth Christoph Zwerschke c...@online.de:
With Py 2.3 (without IPv6 support) this is only the IPv4 address,
but with Py 2.4-2.6 the order is (on my Win XP host) the IPv6 address
first, then the IPv4 address. Since the IPv6 address is checked first,
Quoth Christoph Zwerschke c...@online.de:
rdmur...@bitdance.com schrieb:
Quoth Christoph Zwerschke c...@online.de:
With Py 2.3 (without IPv6 support) this is only the IPv4 address,
but with Py 2.4-2.6 the order is (on my Win XP host) the IPv6 address
first, then the IPv4 address.
rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote:
Quoth Christoph Zwerschke c...@online.de:
rdmur...@bitdance.com schrieb:
Quoth Christoph Zwerschke c...@online.de:
With Py 2.3 (without IPv6 support) this is only the IPv4 address,
but with Py 2.4-2.6 the order is (on my Win XP host) the IPv6 address
Steve Holden schrieb:
Search for the subject line socket.create_connection slow - this was
discovered by Kristjan Valur Jonsson. It certainly seems like a
Microsoft weirdness.
Thanks for the pointer, Steve. I hadn't seen that yet. I agree that's
actually the real problem here. The solution
