----- Original Message ----- > I have started work on converting ATS to use sockaddr_storage > internally as much as possible. Looking at some early progress, I > think I will be taking the approach of storing, passing, and > returning sockaddr_storage basically everywhere. I will provide a > number of inline functions to make protocol specific access easy, > e.g. if you really want the IPv4 address, you would do > > uint32_t addr = ip4_cast(thing->get_ip_addr()).sin_addr.s_addr; > > IPv4 and IPv6 specific methods would be removed (e.g. > NetVConnection::get_remote_ip - use > ip4_cast(netv->get_remote_addr()) instead). I think we might want to > put debug asserts in these functions which go off if the ss_family > value isn't appropriate. > > I think I will also provide equality and inequality operators for > sockaddr_storage which will, in a number of cases, remove the need > for protocol casting entirely while improving IPv6 compatibility. > The cases not covered are where an address should be compared to a > list (e.g., is this address a local machine address?). I am still > thinking about what to do there.
An immensely useful operation is (range) comparison with subnets See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/expr.html#binaryother and http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_setenvif.html#setenvifexpr i -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.ga...@brainsware.org URL: http://brainsware.org/
