question: start_http_server - how to prevent it from accepting external connection?

[yxiang92128]

As part of our InfoSec hardening requirement, we need to make sure this REST server does NOT accept any connection from an external IP other than internally from within the same host. Is there a parameter we can pass in or anything we could to do to make sure of this?

thanks

[csmarchbanks]

Hello, I converted this to a discussion as it is a question not an issue with the library.

To make sure the server created by start_http_server cannot be reached by external services you can specify the addr to be used. For example,

start_http_server(8000, addr="127.0.0.1")

would start a server on port 8000 that can only be accessed locally.