>Passing the remote address to open_socket() would be semantically
>quite different from providing a local address if the only purpose is
>to get the adress family and not binding the socket.
I'm not quite sure I follow you. Of course it's different from
providing a local address. So?
>Anyway, those changes were the minimal needed to get
>
> Protocols.HTTP.get_url("http://[::1]:1234/something/";)
>
>to succeed. Whether Query.pike could be redesigned was beyond the
>scope of my fix since I needed IPv6 functionality in place yesterday
>for a customer test.
But they are not sufficient to get
Protocols.HTTP.get_url("http://ipv6.google.com/something/";)
to work.
I think it's very bad to commit ad-hoc hacks to the repository without
prior discussion at this point in the release cycle. What you do in
your working copy is your own business of course.
