[PROTON-548] Proton-C driver and URL Parsers don't support AF_INET6 (IPv6)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: proton-0.6
• Fix Version/s: proton-0.9
• Component/s: proton-c, proton-j
• Assignee: Clifford Jansen
• Reporter: Ted Ross
• Created: 28/Mar/14 18:03
• Updated: 02/Oct/19 19:17
• Resolved: 03/Mar/15 11:58

Description

The proton-c driver hard-codes its sockets to AF_INET, rather than using the address family associated with a particular address.

On systems that enable IPv6, the address "localhost" cannot be used because it resolves to "::1" rather than "127.0.0.1"