<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">With node/express, you can configure the web server to listen on localhost only:<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">var express = require('express');</span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">var app = express();</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">var port = process.env.PORT || 3000;</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class="">app.listen(port, 'localhost');</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">$ netstat -nat|grep LISTEN</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.3000 *.* LISTEN </span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyone have a similar recipe for python?</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 16, 2016, at 8:58 PM, John Carlson <<a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com" class="">yottzumm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Just a note to follow up:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">node and python web servers listen on all interfaces without careful setup. Thus you shouldn’t start a node or python web server without looking</div><div class="">carefully looking at how to configure it for localhost only.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">$ python3 -m http.server</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">^Z</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[1]+ Stopped python3 -m http.server</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">coderextreme:X3DJSONLD johncarlson$ netstat -nat|grep LISTEN</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">tcp4 0 0 *.8000 *.* LISTEN </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">$ node app.js &</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[1] 11460</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">coderextreme:X3DJSONLD johncarlson$ listening on <a href="http://localhost:3000/" class="">http://localhost:3000</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Go to the link above!</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">!net</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">netstat -nat|grep LISTEN</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">tcp46 0 0 *.3000 *.* LISTEN </span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>