Server won't start without explicitly passing host

[alexdelorenzo]

Cool project, it works well for my needs.

There's an issue if you want to use httpcompressionserver as a drop-in replacement for Python's http.server, though.

When using http.server, you don't need to supply a host value via command-line invocation. It'll just bind to 0.0.0.0:

$ python3 -m http.server
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ...

Launching httpcompressionserver without explicitly providing a host to bind to fails.

$ python3 -m httpcompressionserver
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/home/alex/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/httpcompressionserver.py", line 313, in <module>
    test(HandlerClass=HTTPCompressionRequestHandler,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/http/server.py", line 1246, in test
    ServerClass.address_family, addr = _get_best_family(bind, port)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/http/server.py", line 1229, in _get_best_family
    infos = socket.getaddrinfo(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/socket.py", line 918, in getaddrinfo
    for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

This works just fine:

$ python3 -m httpcompressionserver --bind 0.0.0.0 
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ...

This was run on a Linux host.

[jxu]

Can the PyPI version be updated?

[PierreQuentel]

Thanks for the reminder, I completely forgot to upload to PyPI. It's done now.

[air]

Just ran into this, still happening. Thanks for filing the issue and workaround @alexdelorenzo