On 13/03/2023 21:56, David Higton wrote:
Hi devs,

Is there a plan to support IPv6 on RISC OS, now the RISC OS Developments
TCP/IP stack (Internet V7) is commonly available?

Not to my knowledge, no. Note that NetSurf itself doesn't care about Internet Protocol versions and has long supported IPv6 literals in URIs. Both libcurl and libcares have supported IPv6 for years -- even when built for RISC OS.

However, none of this is likely to work if the platform runtime doesn't understand IPv6 (or does, but not in the same way as the underlying Internet stack). In the case of NetSurf, the platform runtime in question is UnixLib[1] and, as far as I know, it does not know anything about the ROD TCP/IP stack (or, indeed, any RISC OS Internet stack that supports IPv6).

If ever this changes, IPv6 support in NetSurf should "just work" (much like it already does on other platforms).


J.

1. https://www.riscos.info/index.php/UnixLib
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