435690 - Support IPv6 literal addresses in IRC URLs

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, enhancement)

Description

[James Ross]

We currently don't allow IPv6 address literals in IRC URLs, using the preferred format, e.g.:

  irc://[fe80::5d49:767b:4b68:1b17]/

This should be relatively easy, as Necko should be happy with the IPv6 addresses (I hope!) but I dunno if it will want them with or without the square brackets (which aren't part of the address, but used to stop it colliding with port numbers, ala HTTP).

Comment 1

[James Ross]

Attachment: Add IPv6 literal support to IRC URLs and connections

Here we go, the only tricky bit was figuring out what wanted the square brackets and what didn't. That turned out to be nicely localised, so all the .host and .hostname properties of various objects keep the brackets rather than it being constantly added/removed.

Comment 2

[James Ross]

http://hg.mozilla.org/chatzilla/rev/97c847928e25