On 11/25/2013 12:35 PM, Malte Forkel wrote: > I have a Python application that communicates with a server via telnet. > Host and port of the server are supplied by the user when the > application is started. > > How can I determine from within the application whether the server's > host actually is the local host? (In that case I could implement an > operation not available in the telnet-based protocol by directly > accessing the local filesystem.) > > Sounds like there should be an obvious solution. Unfortunately, I > haven't found it yet :-)
I believe socket.getsockname() can return the IP address of the connecting client if you're using standard tcp/ip sockets. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
