runserver: not serving static for localhost

[shadow]

runserver will only serve static files if STATIC_URL is relative. This makes sense if STATIC_URL includes a domain pointing to another server. However, it denies the possibility of including a localhost domain (as is needed by my current project).

I've currently worked around this by modifying: django/contrib/staticfiles/handlers.py

def _should_handle(self, path):
    return True

Sorry, I haven't had time to consider any side effects of this, but it's working for me at the moment.

[shadow]

Sorry, that fix should be:

    def _should_handle(self, path):
        return path.startswith(self.base_url[2])

[shadow]

Actually, now that I think about it... there won't be an easy way of knowing whether the domain is pointing to 127.0.0.1 or not. So this probably can't be fixed reliably.

Never mind :]