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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Lord_Devi <lorddevi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I tried to use the stand alone web server included with Zim to share
> some documents with a friend for some brief collaboration, but noticed
> that when I started the server it is bound only to localhost! I see
> various mentionings of localhost inside the python scripts comprising
> Zim's internals, but do not wish to go editing them without knowing what
> I am doing(I do not program Python).

This is a known limitation. Reason is that the web interface is still
a bit immature, so for safety it currently only binds to localhost for
testing. Admitted, this is not very useful as a default setting.

> How would I go about getting Zim to bind itself to my LAN IP rather than
> my loopback IP?

Please open a bug report and I'll add a quick patch for this.

Regards,

Jaap