In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 05 Oct 2004 06:31:43 -0700, Gianni Mariani
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gianni> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
gianni>
gianni> >hyc> It would be best to avoid any non-standard formats...
gianni> >
gianni> >Thanks! Decision made (and I'll extend it a bit to allow "[" and "]"
gianni> >around IPv4 addresses and host names as well, mostly because I'm
gianni> >lazy).
gianni> >
gianni> >
gianni>
gianni> If I think hard enough, I could probably think of ways that
gianni> this would break things.
Well, let's see, we have two places where this is relevant. One is
the simple {host}:{port} combination, the other is the URL
http://{host}:{port}/... In both cases, the brackets be part of the
{host} part. Brackets can't be part of a IP address or a host name
(at least as far as I know), so I'm not really sure what would break.
gianni> I think this is one of those cases where you want to stick to
gianni> the standard exactly and not allow any non-standard behaviour.
That makes things tougher, because I had planned on letting
getaddrinfo() take care of all the correctness verification. With
what you ask for, we get back at having to do it ourselves, which is
duplication of functionality (and potentially getting it wrong), which
I don't see the benefits of.
Cheers,
Richard
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