How to get host and scheme from a scheduled task?

[Lisandro]

From the book (scheduler documentation) [1]: 

"Tasks differ from a controller action because they are not associated with an HTTP request and therefore there is no request.env"

I have several method fields that generate urls using URL() function with args scheme=True and host=True, but when those methods are called from a scheduled task, the "host" in the final url is 127.0.0.1, and I need it to be the main domain. 

So, is it possible to get host and scheme from a scheduled task given that there is no http request? Thanks in advance.

[1] - http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04/the-core#web2py-Scheduler

[Niphlod]

uhm....... the host is different from the hostname and from the "domain". Usually, the pretty thing about the request environment is that there is a "Host" header sent by client that indicates which "domain" it has been accessed. This makes your application unaware that is running on a particular domain, whilst keep it working without issues.
Since the scheduler can run on any hostname (also in ones that don't usually have a webserver), we can't known what hostname may have been requested, and that host header is never coming in to signal what is the proper hostname to use.

tl;dr:  use URL(......., host='www.domain.com') instead of URL(...., host=True)

 

[Lisandro Rostagno]

I understand. thank you very much for the answer.

I guess I will add a global variable to set the main domain and use it in those cases.

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