[9] Review request : JDK-6933879: URISyntaxException when non-alphanumeric characters are present in scope_id

[Chris Hegarty]

On 11 Dec 2014, at 11:09, Konstantin Shefov <konstantin.shefov at oracle.com> wrote:

> CC'ed core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net
> 
> On 10.12.2014 18:21, Konstantin Shefov wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Please, review the bug fix: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6933879
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kshefov/6933879/webrev.00
>> 
>> It is suggested to add some more symbols allowed for scope id in IPv6 URI, namely "_", "." and ":", because these symbols may be included in network interface names. Now only alphanumeric characters are allowed to be in a scope id.

From Inet6Address, "Textual representation of IPv6 scoped addresses” [1] :

  “…
   As a string. This must be the exact string that is returned by
   NetworkInterface.getName() for the particular interface in
   question. When an Inet6Address is created in this way, the
   numeric scope-id is determined at the time the object is
   created by querying the relevant NetworkInterface."

Have you seen NetworkInterface.getName() return names with ‘_’, ’.’, or ‘:’  ,or is this theoretical ?

-Chris.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/Inet6Address.html#scoped


>> Thanks
>> -Konstantin
>