RE: [Firebird-devel] Connecting to Firebird on different ports: something is wrong.

[Claudio V. C. <cv...@us...>]

Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
> Martijn,
>
>> Am I doing something wrong here? I thought that the parameter
>> should work on the SERVER only and not influence the client,
>> right?
>
> No, it's designed to be used in both server and client. All
> remote-subsystem settings are configurable for the client too.
> Ability to specify a port number in the connection string is just an
> extra way to do the same. Note that it's impossible to specify port
> number in the connection string for Named Pipes and IPC/XNET - only
> via firebird.conf.

Does this limitation come from the unfortunate election of solidus (/) as
the port separator? At the time I proposed either @ or #, the former was
taken for IPX/SPX and the latter apparently wasn't found attractive. But we
know don't support Netware protocol and it would be nice to disambiguate the
parsing of the connection string. Just my personal opinion.

C.