Detecting hostname == localhost?

Michael Goffioul goffioul at imec.be
Fri Sep 13 12:37:35 BST 2002


>  I have no idea how to handle the IP itself without an actual gethostbyaddr()
> call, but I don't expect anybody using that as the hostname for localhost.

The string is not coming from the user, but from the CUPS server
(actually, from the printer URI), and can then be anything: in my case
for example, it's an IP address.

Michael.

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