On Saturday 25 September 2010, it occurred to Nobody to exclaim: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:28:45 +0200, Thomas Jollans wrote: > > If you're using UNIX, and you don't actually need the stream to be > > passed via the hard drive (why would you?), but for some reason want to > > use the file system, look info UNIX/local sockets. But, really, I'm > > guessing that local TCP sockets (our old friend 127.0.0.1/8) will work > > just as well for whatever you're doing (though I may be mistaken), are > > portable to non-UNIX system, and won't be any slower than UNIX domain > > sockets on most, if not all, systems. > > The problem with using the loopback interface is that it's still > "network access", which can run into all kinds of issues with security > policies, firewalls, etc.
What kind of crappy firewall blocks loopback traffic? Really? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
