Slow Requests on Local Flask Server

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Ok I figured it out. It appears to be an issue with Werkzeug and os’s that support ipv6.

From the Werkzeug site http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/serving/:

On operating systems that support ipv6 and have it configured such as modern Linux systems, OS X 10.4 or higher as well as Windows Vista some browsers can be painfully slow if accessing your local server. The reason for this is that sometimes “localhost” is configured to be available on both ipv4 and ipv6 socktes and some browsers will try to access ipv6 first and then ivp4.

So the fix is to disable ipv6 from the localhost by commenting out the following line from my hosts file:

::1             localhost

Once I do this the latency problems go away.

I’m really digging Flask and I’m glad that it’s not a problem with the framework. I knew it couldn’t be.

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