Re: IPv6 address literals in --bind_address (1.19_rc4)

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:10:19PM +0200, Ivan Nejgebauer wrote:
> Each server in the --bind_address option list passes through the
> function user_server_port_strn_assign() (in perdition/server_port.c)
> which separates the user, server and port components. This function
> does not recognize IPv6 address literals as documented in RFC 3986
> (i.e., IPv6 addresses enclosed in brackets.)
> 
> For example, address literal [2001:db8:1000:1::2] will be separated
> into "server" [2001:db8:1000:1: and "port" 2] , which are
> syntactically incorrect and will produce an error in getaddrinfo().
> The enclosed patch adds IPv6 literal handling.
> 
> (A workaround is to use a "naked" IPv6 address with the port
> specification, e.g., 2001:db8:1000:1::2:110 , but this is a) ugly
> and b) not standards-compliant.)
> 
> i.

Thanks Ian,

I have pushed this change and I intend to include it in 1.19.
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