now the best of what we had prior to libuv integration (proper
validation of an ipv4 string), along with libuv support
(initial ipv6 support)
libuv has even weaker facilities for validating an input ipv6
(but still more than what we had), so eventually the "right"
answer would be to roll a proper ipv6 address string parser
in rust
libuv's own ip vetting code appears to in a somewhat woeful state,
for both ipv4 and ipv6 (there are some notes in the tests for net_ip, as
well as stuff added in uv_ll). They are aware of this and welcome patches.
I have rudimentary code in place that can verify whether the provided str
ip was, in fact, validly parsed by libuv, making a few assumptions:
* for ipv4, we assume that the platform's INADDR_NONE val is 0xffffffff ,
I should write a helper to return this value from the platform's libc
headers instead of hard-coding it in rust.
* for ipv6, we assume that the library will always return '::' for
malformed inputs.. as is the case in 64bit ubuntu. I need to verify this
on other platforms.. but at least the debugging output is in place, so
if expectations don't line up, it'll be straightforward to address
still need implementation for parsing/output formatting and (perhaps?)
representation (for now, i just followef the ipv4 variant's lead and
am representing it as a tuple of 8x u16).
parsing an ipv6 addr is way more complex than parsing an ipv4 addr, so
i'm putting off an implementation here, for now.
candidate solutions:
- could use getaddrinfo() (exists on both POSIX and windows), but with
incompatible fn signatures.
- libuv has a way to parse an ipv6 string into
a sockaddr_in6, but it also requires a port, so it's probably not aprop
for ip_addr
