SocketAddress.toString() and RFC 2732

[Alan Bateman]

On 07/06/2019 19:46, Chris wrote:
> java.net.SocketAddress can represent an IPv6 address with port.
> Because parts of an IPv6 address are separated with colons and a colon
> is also used to separate the address from the port, RFC 2732 specifies
> that the address be in square brackets in this case, e.g.
> "[::1]:8080". Shouldn't that be the behavior of
> SocketAddress.toString()? Instead, it omits the square brackets.
>
Moving this to net-dev as that this where this API is maintained.

Yes, this seems an oversight as it is always problematic to read/parse a 
String that is an IPv6 literal address followed by :<port>. I suspect 
this will require a small spec change to InetSocketAddress::toString. 
You mail is timely as there is a lot of activity going on at this time 
on net-dev to allow the JDK work in IPv6-only environments. I'll create 
an issue in JBS for this.

-Alan
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