InetAddress API extension proposal

[Bernd Eckenfels]

Would be helpful to point to the posix standard/requirement which mandates this. Do you mean a single Unix api description or a posix command spec? I don’t think I know of any such things.

Wikipedia claims A POSIX-conforming variant of inet_aton, the inet_pton() function, supports only the four-decimal variant of IP addresses.[10]

And can you also justify a bit more who needs that octal compatibility? Over the years a lot of confusion (zero padding) and security issues (csrf filters not catching all formats) have been found, so it’s really not a good idea to implement it for no good reason. I think this was also the conclusion for the ofLiteral() api. 

Sergey Chernyshev wrote on 26. Mar 2024 17:51 (GMT +01:00):

> Hello Core Libs Dev team,
> 
> I would like to propose a PR to extend the InetAddress API in JDK 23,