RFR: 8209137: Add ability to bind to specific local address to HTTP client

[Daniel Fuchs]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 14:33:40 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <dfuchs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> test/jdk/java/net/httpclient/HttpClientLocalAddrTest.java line 205:
>> 
>>> 203:             // anyAddress
>>> 204:             if (Boolean.getBoolean("java.net.preferIPv6Addresses")) {
>>> 205:                 // ipv6 wildcard
>> 
>> ::1 is the ipv6 loopback - not the ipv6 wildcard
>
> You may encounter some issues when testing with https and IPv6 - Michael is working on a fix to add the loopback addresses as SNI aliases to the SimpleSSLContext certificate:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8278312

You could also replace `Boolean.getBoolean("java.net.preferIPv6Addresses")` with a call to `IPSupport::preferIPv6Addresses()`

-------------

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6690