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#935 kiwix-serve: only listen for local connections

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nobody
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2016-01-03
2015-08-08
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Hi,

I am using kiwix-serve to serve a local mirror of Wikipedia on my own machine. However, kiwix-serve listens to incoming connections from any machine on the network, not just my local machine, which I find undesirable for privacy and security reasons.

Would it be possible to add an option to kiwix-serve to only listen for local connections?

Thanks!

Discussion

  • Emmanuel Engelhart

    Hi Antoine

    Thank you for your feature request

    Yes, would be a good idea. I would simply add something like "--interface" command line option. One small complicated point: this has to work on OSX/Windows/Linux (and I don't know how to specify an interface on Windows).

    Emmanuel

     
  • Emmanuel Engelhart

    Ticket moved from /p/kiwix/bugs/908/

     
  • Emmanuel Engelhart

    • labels: --> core, kiwix-serve
     
  • Emmanuel Engelhart

    This is implemented now in kiwix-serve

     
  • Emmanuel Engelhart

    • status: open --> closed
     

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