IPv6

Marcel Ritter Marcel.Ritter at rrze.uni-erlangen.de
Wed Jul 8 16:37:13 CEST 2009


Ondřej Caletka schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> it looks like the patch only changes everything IPv4 specific to IPv6
> specific.
That's right :-(
> This is not recommended way to port IPv4 applications to IPv6 support,
> because it wouldn't compile on OSes without IPv6 support and it relies
> on V6V4 socket compatibility, which is considered deprecated and
> potentionally dangerous.
>
> Preferred way should be using protocol-independent interace with
> getaddrinfo library function.
Thanks for the hint, I'll look into the man-pages.
Any hints to where I could read more about a clean port
to IPv6?

> Bye,
> Ondrej Caletka
Bye,
   Marcel
>
> Marcel Ritter napsal(a):
>> Hi again,
>>
>> just added IPv6 for getstream's http access (s. attached patch).
>>
>> Bye,
>>    Marcel
>>
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