From d5ccd8177ef739b66e0c014693e5e92c084d6e3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abubakar Abid <a12d@stanford.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 08:07:39 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] changed to daemon thread

---
 gradio/interface.py  |  8 ++------
 gradio/networking.py | 14 +++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gradio/interface.py b/gradio/interface.py
index 094445734d..e461d92861 100644
--- a/gradio/interface.py
+++ b/gradio/interface.py
@@ -20,11 +20,7 @@ import copy
 
 analytics.write_key = "uxIFddIEuuUcFLf9VgH2teTEtPlWdkNy"
 analytics_url = 'https://api.gradio.app/'
-try:
-    ip_address = requests.get('https://api.ipify.org').text
-except requests.ConnectionError:
-    ip_address = "No internet connection"
-
+ip_address = networking.get_local_ip_address()
 
 class Interface:
     """
@@ -303,7 +299,7 @@ class Interface:
         except (KeyboardInterrupt, OSError):
             print("Keyboard interruption in main thread... closing server.")
             thread.keep_running = False
-            networking.url_ok(path_to_local_server)
+            networking.url_ok(path_to_local_server)  # Hit the server one more time to close it
 
     def test_launch(self):
         for predict_fn in self.predict:
diff --git a/gradio/networking.py b/gradio/networking.py
index 2c69fb267c..3890db134a 100644
--- a/gradio/networking.py
+++ b/gradio/networking.py
@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ def set_config(config):
     app.app_globals["config"] = config
 
 
+def get_local_ip_address():
+    try:
+        ip_address = requests.get('https://api.ipify.org').text
+    except requests.ConnectionError:
+        ip_address = "No internet connection"
+    return ip_address
+
+
 def get_first_available_port(initial, final):
     """
     Gets the first open port in a specified range of port numbers
@@ -173,9 +181,9 @@ def start_server(interface, server_name, server_port=None):
     app.cwd = os.getcwd()
     log = logging.getLogger('werkzeug')
     log.setLevel(logging.ERROR)
-    process = threading.Thread(target=app.run, kwargs={"port": port, "host": server_name})
-    process.start()
-    return port, app, process
+    thread = threading.Thread(target=app.run, kwargs={"port": port, "host": server_name}, daemon=True)
+    thread.start()
+    return port, app, thread
 
 
 def close_server(process):