"Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (And I would expect that making a connection to "localhost" actually > does *not* go down up to the network card hardware layer, but I > don't know for real if this is the case or not).
It damned well better. That's the entire point of the loopback interface: to get all the network layer code involved, but not to talk on a physical network interface. If a programmer decides on behalf of the user that "localhost" should be treated specially, that programmer is making an error. -- \ "If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- | `\ George Carlin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
