Re: InetAddress.getLocalHost() returns different values in different threads

From:

Owen Jacobson <angrybaldguy@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:42:43 -0700

Message-ID:

<1193352163.762024.300310@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com>

On Oct 25, 3:18 pm, Mark Space <marksp...@sbc.global.net> wrote:

Owen Jacobson wrote:

" If the operation is not allowed, an InetAddress representing the
loopback address is returned."

This seems a crucial bit of information here. It may indicate that the
process getting "127.0.0.1" is experiencing some sort of failure. Maybe
permissions on Vista are different than permissions on OSX? I think you
have an issue not directly to getLocalHost().

I misread that initially as if it "is allowed"; the rest of my post is
blither since I got that wrong, and can be boiled down to:

"If you need to talk to 127.0.0.1, use 127.0.0.1, not getLocalHost().
Surprise!"

I'm not an expert on applets by any means. But I think you should
always be able to connect to the server that the applet downloaded from.

Ponders.... get*Local*Host()? Why do you need your ip address to talk
to a server? Shouldn't you just open a socket to myServer.com and talk
to that?

My money's on some form of IPC between applets or something.