In message <4.1.19990113233730.009e92b0@ricochet.net>, "Mark S. Miller" <markm@caplet.com> wrote:
>NetAddr.java has the following method:
>
> /**
> * Produce a printable representation of this.
> * @return A nicely formatted string representing this address.
> */
> public String toString() {
> // XXX this should be a call to justAddr, but windows can't
> // handle the dotted.quad address
> return justAddr(myInetAddress.toString()) + ":" + myPortNumber;
> }
>
>After the comment is a call to justAddr(), but this doesn't seem to have
>been causing any problems I've noticed on Windows. What problem is/was
>this about? Should we still be worried about this?
This one's mine. The InetAddress code bottoms out in a native call. The solaris version always worked fine, but the windows one would fail to accept an InetAddress that was specified as a dotted quad (127.0.0.1). Perhaps it's been fixed.
-eric