invalid ip addr on hg serve

[TK Soh]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
> On 28.03.2008 01:15, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>  > Adrian Buehlmann wrote, On 03/27/2008 07:14 PM:
>  >> But with (A)
>  >>
>  >>   $ hgd serve -v
>  >>   listening at http://snoopy:8000/ (*:8000)
>  >>
>  >> maybe someone will ask then what the star means :-)?
>  >>
>  >> Some more ideas:
>  >>
>  >>   (B) listening at http://snoopy:8000/ (address *:8000)
>  >>
>  >>   (C) listening on address *:8000 (http://snoopy:8000/)
>  >>
>  >
>  > Mercurial knows that it is listening precisely at 0.0.0.0:8000, and from
>  > the local host the repository can be accessed at http://0.0.0.0:8000/,
>  > so that address / URL should be the first to mention.
>
>  When doing
>
>  > hg serve -v
>  listening at http://snoopy:8000/ (0.0.0.0:8000)
>
>  and pointing Firefox at http://0.0.0.0:8000/ I get a "Unable to connect"
>  on my WinXP.

I am having this problem, too. On one hand, it gives the url with
hostname, but the IP is 0.0.0.0, which does not correspond to the said
hostname.

It's just confusing.

>  Did you mean "the repository can be accessed at http://127.0.0.1:8000/" ?
>
>  I'd prefer (C) or something too. Maybe:
>
>   (D) listening on address *:8000 (try http://localhost:8000/)
>                                    ^^^
>  "try" as a hint that we don't intend to list all possible DNS's.
>
>  I can't comment on the code issues you mention, as I'm not qualified
>  on network programming.

I think the [Mercurial] users should be the focus here. We can't
expect every user to posses in-depth knowledge in networking. Simply
saying 0.0.0.0 is a standard notation would be a cop-out.