Flask listens only on 127.0.0.1 ignoring host parameter
flask, lan, netcat, python
Solution
The port goes in it's own parameter:
app.run(
host="0.0.0.0",
port=5000
)
Problem
I'm using Flask on Windows 7. Flask and related versions are below: ``` Flask==0.10.1 Werkzeug==0.9.3 ``` Accessing the app from the same computer is OK using `http://127.0.0.1:5000` However from another computer in LAN the access fails: `http://192.168.101.103:5000` I start the app with these parameters: ``` #app.py if __name__ == '__main__': app.run( host='0.0.0.0:5000') ``` One thing I don't understand is, when I start netcat on the same computer, where Flask is currently listening on the same port, it works, and netcat is even accessible from another computer: ``` >c:\Python27\python manage.py runserver > * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ * Restarting with reloader ``` works ... ``` >nc -l -p 5000 ``` works on the same computer, same port ??? ``` GET / HTTP/1.1 Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, */* Accept-Language: de-DE User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Host: 192.168.101.103:5000 DNT: 1 Connection: Keep-Alive ``` even accepting connection from another computer ??? So beside the obvious question, how to get Flask serving for LAN, I'm curious, how could two processes of one machine listen on the same port? Thank you!