[jboss-as7-dev] ipv6 "usability" question

Pavel Janousek Pavel.Janousek at redhat.com
Fri May 25 07:43:02 EDT 2012


Hi Max,

I really hate to use [xyz] anywhere I'd like to use literal IPv6 address. IP address should be always without brackets! On the other hand, URL need brackets because URL port (+ password) delimiter is the same as IPv6 IP's group delimiter - in this case [] are needed in _every_ case, but again - only when we are using _literal_ IPv6 address, not name. In an URL brackets are important to use because ambiguity can be occurred very easily.

I hate the present (only one) possible option as ./standalone.sh ... -b [IPv6] -bmanagement=IPv6 because it is really bad and at least unprofessional... in every case we'd like to specify literal IP address, we should do this _only_ without bracket, because this is only one possible text representation...

I guess, my thought isn't accepted by majority up to now (as we can see in present AS7), but I'd like to bet future is mine...:)

Pavel

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Max Rydahl Andersen" <max.andersen at redhat.com>
> To: "jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org Development" <jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 12:30:44 PM
> Subject: [jboss-as7-dev] ipv6 "usability" question
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> Trying to be sure our tools actually can connect/work with ipv6
> enabled servers we're are hitting a bit of a snag.
> 
> Is it expected that clients unescapes/escapes ipv6 addresses or is
> :::1 and [:::1] considered equivalent ?
> 
> i.e. do code need to add []'s when constructing urls, and remove []'s
> when passing it to things that just need an address ?
> 
> Just wondering if we could tells users to put [::1] into hostname
> fields if they want to use ipv6 - then we don't need to add all this
> escaping/unescaping
> for ipv6 in the UI layer of tools.
> 
> /max
> 
> 
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