[Python-Dev] IDLE - firewall warning (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 12:56:22 CEST 2006

Gregor Lingl wrote:

I have posted the following message to idle-dev, but no reply yet. Just a suggestion:

The firewall warning message in the Pythonshell window was introduced in Python 2.3 (IDLE 1.0 or something similar?) I remember well the problems, to which it was the answer. (If I remember correctly I was involved in the discussion thread which led to the introduction of that message.) Since more than three years I've used IDLE on many different systems and I didn't encounter a single Firewall warning since then. (It seems that firewalls nowadays are not offended by the use of 127.0.0.1)

Unless that firewall is ZoneAlarm on Windows XP :)

Something that can easily happen to suppress the firewall warnings for IDLE is that someone runs a Python application and grants it access to the internet. For an executable file signature based outbound firewall like ZoneAlarm, this actually grants passage through the firewall to all Python applications, since it is the interpreter binary that gets registered (ZA has a similar lack of granularity when it comes to Java applications).

Cheers, Nick.

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