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| TIP: | 162 |
| Title: | IPv6 Sockets for Tcl |
| Version: | $Revision: 1.3 $ |
| Authors: |
Rafael Martínez Torres <rafael dot martinez at novagnet dot com> fredi <fredkor_ccm at hotmail dot com> |
| State: | Draft |
| Type: | Project |
| Tcl-Version: | 8.5 |
| Vote: | Pending |
| Created: | Thursday, 23 October 2003 |
This TIP is about allowing Tcl to use IPv6 sockets in virtually the same way that you would use the current (IPv4) sockets.
IPv6 is the next generation of the IP protocol that underlies Internet sockets. IPv6 advantages include a wider address space (128 bits instead current 32 bits), improved mobility, mandatory security at IP layer (IPsec...), etc. Tcl should allow the programmers try both protocols at their networking programs without too much effort (dependant on underlying operating system support, of course), just accepting the literal address (2001:80:2aff::24, 192.23.56.3) or the DNS names (www.server.com).
The interpreter should understand:
socket 2001:800:4a01::2 echo socket 192.168.34.43 http socket -server accept 9999 socket www.euro6ix.org
and fconfigure should give detailed info on resulting sockets, as
fconfigure sock3 -blocking 1 -buffering full -buffersize 4096 \
-encoding iso8859-1 -eofchar {{} {}} -translation {auto crlf} \
-peername {2001:800:40:2a05::10 2001:800:40:2a05::10 7} \
-sockname {2001:800:40:2a05:2c0:9fff:fe1d:e518 2001:800:40:2a05:2c0:9fff:fe1d:e518 1050}
A patch is available for UNIX platforms [1].
This document has been placed in the public domain.
This is not necessarily the current version of this TIP.