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dpallot / simple-websocket-server

A python based websocket server that is simple and easy to use.
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Make use of socket.getaddrinfo() to support IPv6 and passing hostnames #79

Closed uzlonewolf closed 5 years ago

uzlonewolf commented 6 years ago

Make use of socket.getaddrinfo() to support IPv6 and passing hostnames as the bind address. If a name cannot be resolved socket.getaddrinfo() will throw a socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known. If a name resolves to multiple addresses it will use the first one returned.

uzlonewolf commented 6 years ago

A significant change this patch causes is when an empty string is given as the bind address - in that case it only uses IPv6 with IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#IPv4-mapped_IPv6_addresses ) for IPv4 clients. Some operating systems, namely Win XP, Server 2003, and OpenBSD, do not allow IPv4-mapped IPv6; for those you will need to set the bind address to 0.0.0.0 to force IPv4-only. Alternately, changing fam = socket.AF_INET6 to fam = socket.AF_INET will revert it to the old IPv4-only behavior.