[Twisted-Python] Queries about connecting to a XML-RPC server over IPv6

[Phil Mayers]

On 09/12/13 13:28, Glyph wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:33 AM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
> <mailto:p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>> The IPv6 support in Twisted is very new - check your version even
>> *has* it - and it's still a work in progress. You might find that you
>> can't do this. I'd have to read the code to be sure and I don't have
>> time right now, but my guess is that t.w.xmlrpc isn't
>> "getaddrinfo"-ised so won't connect to IPv6 names.
>>
>> If your version of Twisted supports it, you could probably work around
>> this by sub-classing Proxy and calling reactor.connectTCP('::1', 8000)
>> to attach the protocol yourself.
>
> Worth noting, of course, that Proxy not working with IPv6 is a bug.

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