[Python-apps-team] Bug#796378: Bug#796378: pelican: devserver's tcp port 8000 is also used by squid-deb-proxy

[Daniel Stender]

On 21.08.2015 19:42, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> Control: tag -1 wontfix
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Daniel Stender
> <debian at danielstender.com> wrote:
>> Package: pelican
>> Version: 3.6.3-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Pelican's devserver is running on port 8000 like squid-deb-proxy does by default, I would suggest to patch the default configuration of Pelican. Reassigning no problem with me.
> 
> "python -m SimpleHTTPServer" uses port 8000 by default. Are you
> suggesting that all python applications that make use of the
> SimpleHTTPServer module be patched to run on a different port just
> because squid-deb-proxy uses port 8000? IMHO that makes as much sense
> as forcing all non-Apache web servers to default to something else
> other than port 80 merely because Apache uses port 80 by default
> (which is to say, that makes no sense at all).
> 
> Regards,
> Vincent

Wasn't aware of the background. No, of course wouldn't suggest that. No problem.

DS

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