Re: [cgiwrap-users] Implementing IPv6 support

[Neulinger, N. <nn...@ms...>]

If you send a patch against current SVN, I'll be happy to look it over
and apply it... it's about time I did a fresh release of the code...

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       nn...@ms...
Missouri S&T Information Technology    (573) 341-6679
System Administrator - Principal       KD0DMH


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cgi...@li... [mailto:cgiwrap-
> use...@li...] On Behalf Of Hans van
> Kranenburg
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 7:59 AM
> To: cgi...@li...
> Subject: [cgiwrap-users] Implementing IPv6 support
> 
> Hi cgiwrap-folks,
> 
> While carefully IPv6-enabling our network infrastructure, I
> discovered
> cgiwrap does not yet handle IPv6 addresses in configuration files
> and
> CGI environment variables.
> 
> Currently cgiwrap requires a dotquad IPv4 address in REMOTE_ADDR
> environment variable. So even if host-checking is not used in
> cgiwrap.(deny|allow), any request over IPv6 will be refused when
> cgiwrap
> is compiled with --with-host-checking.
> 
> Currently I'm using cgiwrap without --with-host-checking to work
> around
> this issue.
> 
> RFC 3875 (CGI) and RFC 3513 (IPv6 Addressing Architecture) describe
> the
> possible content of REMOTE_ADDR cgiwrap should be able to parse.
> 
> In configuration file parsing, support for IPv6 addressing like
> 2001:888:30a9:1e7::/64 should be added. I think it would be rather
> trivial to just add ipv4/prefix (like 10.0.0.0/22) support in
> addition
> to specifying netmasks in dotquad format.
> 
> Although C is not a programming language I speak fluently (yet),
> I'd
> like to give it a shot and code IPv6 support into cgiwrap. So, if
> the
> cgiwrap author or another experienced C programmer could review the
> changes and probably help me out a bit when needed, I'd be happy to
> contribute to cgiwrap.
> 
> Greetings,
> Hans van Kranenburg
> 
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