support for running RobotRemoteServer() on remote machine other than localhost

[giri81]

it runs successfully when running RobotRemoteServer(ExampleRemoteLibrary(), host='127.0.0.1')
but it fails for other than localhost, RobotRemoteServer(ExampleRemoteLibrary(), host='200.20.57.10')

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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\eclipse\my_workspace\march_3\remote_server\server.py", line 32, in
RobotRemoteServer(ExampleRemoteLibrary(), host='200.20.57.10')
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\robotremoteserver.py", line 60, in init
SimpleXMLRPCServer.init(self, (host, int(port)), logRequests=False)
File "C:\Python27\lib\SimpleXMLRPCServer.py", line 593, in init
SocketServer.TCPServer.init(self, addr, requestHandler, bind_and_activate)
File "C:\Python27\lib\SocketServer.py", line 419, in init
self.server_bind()
File "C:\Python27\lib\SocketServer.py", line 430, in server_bind
self.socket.bind(self.server_address)
File "C:\Python27\lib\socket.py", line 224, in meth
return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)
socket.error: [Errno 10049] The requested address is not valid in its context

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[ZachZugSanders]

Go into the file and change the localhost default address to 127.0.0.1 --- localhost normally emulates that address but for some reason it isn't in my machine so I am assuming that might be the case for you as well.
One you have the command line displaying that the server is running you can navigate to 127.0.0.1:7272 and see that the site is running.

[ZachZugSanders]

class DemoServer(TCPServer):
allow_reuse_address = True

def __init__(self, port=PORT):
    TCPServer.__init__(self, ('127.0.0.1', int(port )), SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)<---EDIT THIS LINE

def serve(self, directory=ROOT):
    chdir(directory)
    print 'Demo server starting on port %d.' % self.server_address[1]
    try:
        server.serve_forever()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        server.server_close()
    print 'Demo server stopped.'

[pekkaklarck]

I don't have problems using other addresses than localhost or 127.0.0.1. For example, I can start the provided example library like

python  example/examplelibrary.py 192.168.1.15

and then run tests like

robot --variable ADDRESS:192.168.1.15 example/example_tests.robot

Notice that my laptops public IP is that 192.168.1.15. It's obviously not possible to use other addresses than your machine has and that the current user can use.