UDP broadcasts => 'Permission denied'

[Guido Goldstein]

Hi!

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 23:47:51 +0100
  Christian Kaenzig <christian at becool.ch> wrote:
[...]
> But then I wanted the client not to send its data explicitely to the server, 
> but send a broadcast packet instead, so I told the client to send it to 
> '<broadcast>'. This didn't work :-(. It printed the folowing message :
> 
> s.sendto('Hello world',(HOST, PORT))
> socket.error: (13, 'Permission denied')
[...]

Try the following:
--- cut ---
if hasattr(socket,'SO_BROADCAST'):
    s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BROADCAST, 1)
s.sendto('Hello world',(HOST, PORT))
--- cut ---

This allows broadcast messages going out from the given socket.

HIH
  Guido