Re: TCL and IPv6

On Mar 28, 7:07 pm, David Gravereaux <davyg...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
suka...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi,

Does the Tcl/Tk 8.5a5 alpha version available atwww.tcl.tksupport
IPv6 on both Unix and Windows?

We have an embedded tclhttpd web server in our application and the tcl
interpreter version we have is 8.4.5.

If Tcl 8.5 release version will support IPv6, will the changes be
transparent to applications like tclhttpd, i.e will it automatically
bind to IPv6 address and port 80 if IPv6 is enabled on that machine?

Thanks.
Sukarna

No, you'll still need two sockets for both. One bound on the v6 one and another
on the v4.

If you want v6 on windows now get my extension for it:http://sf.net/projects/iocpsock get the alpha version in the release area.

Its performance is better than stock Tcl anyways.

There is a patch in the zip file for applying to tclhttpd. You will need to be
specific in your bind to get a v6 address. Although, if the lookup on your
machine's hostname does have an AAAA record (or both A and AAAA) then it will
attach to the v6 address, which in my case I consider a bug because it now *isn't*
the same behavior.

As for Tcl8.5 having v6 features, I can't comment as I don't know.

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Thanks David. Our application is available on Unix also. I see there
is a ceptcl extension for Unix. Do you have sample patch to integrate
ceptcl in tclhttpd to get IPv6 support in Unix?

Since you mention its in Alpha, when will this be extension come out
of the alpha/beta phase?

Thanks.
Sukarna

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