Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libdocxmlrpc.tex b/Doc/lib/libdocxmlrpc.tex
index 2f1e6ca..0dd4c6d 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libdocxmlrpc.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libdocxmlrpc.tex
@@ -14,8 +14,12 @@
\class{DocXMLRPCServer}, or embedded in a CGI environment, using
\class{DocCGIXMLRPCRequestHandler}.
-\begin{classdesc}{DocXMLRPCServer}{addr\optional{,
- requestHandler\optional{, logRequests}}}
+\begin{classdesc}{DocXMLRPCServer}{addr\optional{,
+ requestHandler\optional{,
+ logRequests\optional{,
+ allow_none\optional{,
+ encoding\optional{,
+ bind_and_activate}}}}}}
Create a new server instance. All parameters have the same meaning as
for \class{SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer};
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsimplexmlrpc.tex b/Doc/lib/libsimplexmlrpc.tex
index 6b45855..fe1e1f8 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsimplexmlrpc.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsimplexmlrpc.tex
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
\begin{classdesc}{SimpleXMLRPCServer}{addr\optional{,
requestHandler\optional{,
- logRequests\optional{, allow_none\optional{, encoding}}}}}
+ logRequests\optional{,
+ allow_none\optional{,
+ encoding}}}}}
Create a new server instance. This class
provides methods for registration of functions that can be called by
@@ -28,8 +30,13 @@
setting this parameter to false will turn off logging.
The \var{allow_none} and \var{encoding} parameters are passed on to
\module{xmlrpclib} and control the XML-RPC responses that will be returned
- from the server.
+ from the server. The \var{bind_and_activate} parameter controls whether
+ \method{server_bind()} and \method{server_activate()} are called immediately
+ by the constructor; it defaults to true. Setting it to false allows code to
+ manipulate the \var{allow_reuse_address} class variable before the address
+ is bound.
\versionchanged[The \var{allow_none} and \var{encoding} parameters were added]{2.5}
+ \versionchanged[The \var{bind_and_activate} parameter was added]{2.6}
\end{classdesc}
\begin{classdesc}{CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler}{\optional{allow_none\optional{, encoding}}}