Hi silvioprog,

Have you considered simply using

IN6_IS_ADDR_V4MAPPED

on the v6 address, and if it matches, extracting the mapped v4 address?

Happy hacking!

Christian

On 11/28/19 4:35 AM, silvioprog wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have a function which checks if the sa_family is AF_INET or AF_INET6
> and formats the client address as IPv4 (e.g. 127.0.0.1) or IPv6 (e.g.
> ::1) into a string. However, when I enable the dual stack in MHD, it
> always returns AF_INET6 in sa_family even when passing -4 as parameter
> in curl.
> 
> I'm using MHD_get_connection_info(...,
> MHD_CONNECTION_INFO_CLIENT_ADDRESS)->client_addr to get the client
> address and the formatting function is in attachment below.
> 
> Is there any flag to force MHD to return AF_INET when the client
> connects explicitly as IPv4?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> // Attachment: function to format the client address as IPv4 or IPv6
> int get_ip(const void *socket, char *buf, size_t size) {
>   const struct sockaddr *sa;
>   if (!socket || !buf || (ssize_t) size < 0)
>     return EINVAL;
>   sa = socket;
>   switch (sa->sa_family) {
>     case AF_INET:
>       if (!inet_ntop(AF_INET, &(((struct sockaddr_in *) sa)->sin_addr), buf,
>                      size))
>         return errno;
>       break;
>     case AF_INET6:
>       if (!inet_ntop(AF_INET6, &(((struct sockaddr_in6 *)
> sa)->sin6_addr), buf,
>                      size))
>         return errno;
>       break;
>     default:
>       return EINVAL;
>   }
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> --
> Silvio Clécio

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