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

[David M. Lloyd]

The JDK IP address parser will accept [], I believe, but it's not a 
valid address.  I'd say that we should allow [] but not recommend it. 
For tools, it's a question of parsing the IP address (getAddressByName 
should do it), determining if it's a nameless IPv6 address, and if so, 
escaping it; not too onerous a burden in my opinion.

On 05/25/2012 06:47 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> so in your future using [:::1] should error if not used in a url ?
>
> That is what ssh command line seem to be doing btw
>
> /max
>
> On May 25, 2012, at 13:43 , Pavel Janousek wrote:
>
>> 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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