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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Graham Leggett <mi...@sharp.fm> on 2002/03/08 22:22:44 UTC
Re: cvs commit: httpd-2.0/modules/proxy mod_proxy.h proxy_connect.c
proxy_http.c proxy_util.c
trawick@apache.org wrote:
> implement a common function for getting a socket and trying to connect
> to the target host; use that common function for proxy HTTP and proxy
> CONNECT
>
> In that new function, fix this problem:
>
> Proxy HTTP and CONNECT: Keep trying other addresses from the DNS
> when we can't get a socket in the specified address family. We may
> have gotten back an IPv6 address first and yet our system is not
> configured to allow IPv6 sockets.
Is it possible to apply this same fix to v1.3 as well? Or does it not
matter (does 1.3 support IPv6?)...?
Regards,
Graham
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Re: cvs commit: httpd-2.0/modules/proxy mod_proxy.h proxy_connect.c proxy_http.c proxy_util.c
Posted by Jeff Trawick <tr...@attglobal.net>.
Graham Leggett <mi...@sharp.fm> writes:
> trawick@apache.org wrote:
>
> > implement a common function for getting a socket and trying to connect
> > to the target host; use that common function for proxy HTTP and proxy
> > CONNECT
> >
> > In that new function, fix this problem:
> >
> > Proxy HTTP and CONNECT: Keep trying other addresses from the DNS
> > when we can't get a socket in the specified address family. We may
> > have gotten back an IPv6 address first and yet our system is not
> > configured to allow IPv6 sockets.
>
> Is it possible to apply this same fix to v1.3 as well? Or does it not
> matter (does 1.3 support IPv6?)...?
1.3 doesn't support IPv6 (the KAME project has a rather large patch to
add IPv6 support to 1.3).
It would be useful to put this function to use on the 2.0 proxy ftp
path.
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