[SOLVED] Why is python-requests to localhost slow?

Why is python-requests to localhost slow?

I have a simple flask server defined like so:

import sys

import flask
from flask import request

app = flask.Flask(__name__)
port = 4057

@app.route('/search', methods=['POST'])
def search():
  request.json['query']
  results = ['fake', 'data']
  return flask.jsonify(results)

if __name__ == '__main__':
 app.config['TEMPLATES_AUTO_RELOAD'] = True
 app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=port, debug=(port != 80))

I have a simple client defined like this:

import json

import requests

headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
resp = requests.post('http://localhost:4057/search', json.dumps({'query': 'foo'}), headers=headers)
print resp.content

The client works, but it takes like 3 seconds to complete the request.

curl completes in like half a second:

curl 'http://localhost:4057/search' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"query": "foo"}'

Solution

Try 127.0.0.1 There maybe some odd name resolution rules fumbling requests.

Ah ok, this is my work machine. I took a look at /etc/hosts and saw ~200 routes defined that I didn't realize were there

As mention in the comments, this does not explain the odd behavior replicated using curl.