Allow Litewallet users to manually select an IPv6 node

[Odontoceti]

Problem

Litewallet currently rejects the input of IPv6 IP addresses as if they were non-valid addresses or domain names. The option to manually select a node is under the advanced settings menu and it only allows IPv4 addressess for now.

The reason for this apparently is the module TrustedNode.java. This module performs the validation of what the user inputs, and whether it contains a port or not. It's programmed in such a way that only IPv4 is considered valid.

Solution

In order for Litewallet to allow IPv6 addressess a modification or rewrite of at least this module would be required. I may have missed other parts or got it entirely wrong.

Affected users

• Users that manually select the node they want to connect to.
  • Out of that population, the even smaller percentage that wants to connect to an IPv6 addressed node.

[kcw-grunt]

Thanks for posting this issue @Odontoceti .

As mentioned before this is an extremely rare corner case for Litewallet users and we are struggling for any reason to escalate at this time. We don't really see this as a problem.

Can you provide examples where other wallets have already adopted IPv6 capability? Please provide code links.