I’ve been able to set up sending and listening to http requests locally using 127.0.0.1:8000. I want to try doing it using the internet now.
I have a VPN with port forwarding enabled, but sending requests to that IP address and port does not yield a response like it did when doing it locally.
Can anyone clarify which address I should be listening on in order to receive http requests from the internet? I tried 0.0.0.0 and a few inet addresses from ip add, but none of them work.
Sure, you can, but nobody does it and most consumer networks actively block it. Not to mention that multicast is UDP, http is over TCP, so it’s irrelevant to your question anyway. There is no “listening” to http traffic unless you are looking to listen for traffic sent explicitly to you, which is why everyone is asking you - what are you trying to do?
Are you trying to set up an http server that listens through a VPN, to serve a webpage or API or something?
Do you just want to listen to random UDP multicast traffic? That has nothing to do with http, and idk why you would want to since no one does, but I suppose you could.
Or are you misunderstanding networking and thinking you can somehow listen to someone else’s Internet traffic? Which you can’t, unless you meet a specific set of criteria - which I’m not going to go into at this point.
You’re unwilling or unable to explain your actual problem, which is why I’m getting frustrated with you. I’m not asking about protocols you’re listening on, or questioning your Wikipedia skills, all I want to know is what are you trying to do?
I’m not the author of this post.
I just was trying to make sense of what they were asking about.
Oh god I’m so sorry, I thought they were jumping in, foot in mouth for sure. I’ll leave it there so maybe they see it, but official apologies to you
All good
I just found it really funny