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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Bringing IPv6 to KDE
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-12-19 4:31:00
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On Monday 18 December 2000 16:06, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> George Staikos wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 December 2000 21:20, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > And the process actually boils to these few steps:
> > > 1) write the key, base classes into libkdecore and make sure they're
> > > binary compatible
> >
> >         1b) Modify OpenSSL and other external libraries to support ipv6
>
> This goes into step (4) down there. If the protocol or library does
> not need to know the IP address itself, there should be no
> modification needed. All that has to be done is make sure that they
> use KSocket or KExtendedSocket (I'm writing this one) and not use the
> system calls directly.
>
> As for OpenSSL, I'm not sure whether it requires modification or not.
> I tried using https on my local Apache server and Konqueror
> successfully showed the page, without any modification to the SSL
> code.
>
> If anyone wants to test the patch, it's here:
> http://loki.nw.com.br/development/kdelibs-1.92-ipv6.diff
>
> > > 2) modify KURL to accept the raw IPv6 addresses in URL (RFC 2732)

This is almost done since KURL is a generic parser.  It needs a few modifications
to adhere to the additional minor changes imposed by this spec.  I am planning
to re-write the parser for 2.2 or whatever the later release is for the 2.x series so
I will make sure that KURL is capable of understanding IPv6...

Regards,
Dawit A.

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