Re: address/port separator
Yes... As I recall with IPv6 addresses because of the use of
colons within the address you need to place the IPv6 address inside
brackets (ie. [::1]:80 - Loopback)
Jeremy
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 02:13:51PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> Is there a convention used to separate an ipv6 address and port?
>
> Specifically, I'm talking about when giving an address/port combination
> to a program that makes a tcp connection. I'm converting a program
> written for ipv4 to use ipv6 as well, and it can take arguments like
> this:
>
> hostname:http
> hostname:80
> 1.2.3.4:80
> 1.2.3.4:http
>
> or just a port name or number, using a default address. The code as
> written uses a construction like strrchr(name, ':') to see whether the
> given argument contains a hostname and a port; if it doesn't find a ':'
> it assumes it's just a port name/number, no hostname.
>
> So far I've left it that way, so it will work as before for ipv4
> hostnames and ip adresses, but will only work with ipv6 if the host is
> specified as a name, not a colon-delimited ipv6 address.
>
> My intuition is that the Right Way to do this is to split them up into 2
> arguments, so instead of something like "-r host:port" it would look
> like "-r hostname -p port", but I wonder if others have seen any useful
> convention for this situation. I believe mozilla accepts ipv6 addresses
> enclosed in brackets, is this behavior common to other programs as well?
>
> Any suggestions you have (or FMs to R) are appreciated.
>
> good times,
> Vineet
>
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