From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2000 - 05:07:03 EST
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 03:55:07PM -0800, winterlion wrote:
>
> Has anyone looked at this yet?
Hi Teunis,
> I've just discovered libxml (and switched to libxml2 - hope it doesn't
> break anything. v2.2.2) and discovered that the URL parser can't handle
> ipv6 defined addresses...
> ie: http://[::1]:80 == http://localhost:80
>
> I'm just wondering if it's something that's even being paid attention to.
> Now I'm -not- at this time writing code for gnome - I'm using libxml2 in
> an external package. (and all I'm using at this time is the uri parser).
> The package I'm writing already has ipv6 support so it made sense to look
> into this....
Well I never looked at the IPv6 URI support, this should be added to the
TODO list :-)
I have pointers but never got the time to look at those.
If you could provide a brief summary of the changes needed to both
the URI parsing algorithms and possibly the changes needed when dealing
with the socket interfaces, that would be really useful.
Patches are welcome too, but I would like first to understand the
basic changes needed :-)
Daniel
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