[jira] Work started: (MODPYTHON-120) Connection handler test fails on virtual hosting system such as OpenVPS.

["Graham Dumpleton (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-120?page=all ]
     
Work on MODPYTHON-120 started by Graham Dumpleton

> Connection handler test fails on virtual hosting system such as OpenVPS.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: MODPYTHON-120
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-120
>      Project: mod_python
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: core
>     Versions: 3.2.7
>     Reporter: Graham Dumpleton
>     Assignee: Graham Dumpleton
>     Priority: Minor

>
> On a virtual hosting environment such as OpenVPS, "localhost" does not map to the IP address "127.0.0.1" but the actual IP of the host.
>   >>> import socket
>   >>> socket.gethostbyname("localhost")
>   '207.126.122.36'
> This fact causes the connection handler test to fail because it sets up the virtual host listener definition as something like:
>   Listen 59180
>   <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:59180>
>     SetHandler mod_python
>     PythonPath [r'/home/grahamd/mod_python-3.2.7/test/htdocs']+sys.path
>     PythonConnectionHandler tests::connectionhandler
>   </VirtualHost> 
> In this case it really needs to be:
>   Listen 59180
>   <VirtualHost 207.126.122.36:59180>
>     SetHandler mod_python
>     PythonPath [r'/home/grahamd/mod_python-3.2.7/test/htdocs']+sys.path
>     PythonConnectionHandler tests::connectionhandler
>   </VirtualHost> 
> To accomodate virtual hosting arrangements, the test might be able to be rewritten as:
>     def test_connectionhandler_conf(self):
>         try:
>             ip = socket.gethostbyname("localhost")
>         except:
>             ip = "127.0.0.1"
>         self.conport = findUnusedPort()
>         c = str(Listen("%d" % self.conport)) + \
>             str(VirtualHost("%s:%d" % (ip,self.conport),
>                             SetHandler("mod_python"),
>                             PythonPath("[r'%s']+sys.path" % DOCUMENT_ROOT),
>                             PythonConnectionHandler("tests::connectionhandler")))
>         return c
> This should always work on UNIX boxes, but whether it does on Win32 boxes would need to be confirmed.

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