[SR-Users] ip address fields

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

On 10/22/12 8:36 PM, Juha Heinanen wrote:
> Daniel-Constantin Mierla writes:
>
>> I gave the link to show the ipv4 representation. Square brackets are
>> commonly used in ipv6 representations, specially in url/uri -- wikipedia
>> link you provided mentions that..
> yes, but when they are used in url, square brackets are not part of the
> address.  they just delimiting the address.

that's why I said ipv6 address representation.

>
>> Being a code read by machine and being required to support them in
>> kamailio (as we get ipv6 from headers/uri), I see no problem in being
>> flexible enough to deal with both cases.
> are you sure that kamailio lcr and permissions modules are able handle
> all those non-canonical ipv6 addresses (including square brackets that
> are not part of the address) when tables are reloaded?
>
> to me it would make sense to canonize user given addresses before
> management system stores them to database.

many times the management system sits between chair and keyboard :-) , 
being able to read/add human representation is really crucial in this case.

The fact is that canonical format works just fine, it's all ok if you 
want to use it always.

All modules should support all variants if they use the ipv6 address 
parser from core. The functionality related to address checking from 
permissions module does it for sure, I have no idea if lcr implements 
custom parser. I think trusted from permissions has an issue, iirc, 
because the comparison was done via string comparison --not using it I 
am not sure if anyone change it.

Cheers,
Daniel

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