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IPv6 address is shown even if Firefox didn't use it to actually connect #1

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. visit http://www.kame.net/
2. notice the green IPv6 in the status bar
3. notice the not-dancing-at-all turtle
4. use wireshark to actually confirm you connected using IPv4

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expected the address actually used during the HTTP session to show by
default in the status bar, while the addon always shows IPv6 addresses when
available.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Firefox 2 on both Windows and FreeBSD.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lapo.luchini on 15 Feb 2008 at 7:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Firefox may even mix IPv4 and IPv6 requests on the same page and use different 
IPs
for different page elements. There is nothing we can do about that :-( - at 
least I
don't know a way to force firefox to use IPv6 addresses if available. Please 
file a
bug with firefox if that concerns you.

Thanks,

Jan

Original comment by jan.ditt...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2008 at 8:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Sorry, I didn't express myself well enough: I didn't mean to imply that ShowIP 
should
change Firefox's behavior in any way (I would consider that a bad thing) but 
rather I
would have preferred ShowIP to show the actual IP used for the specific TCP
connection used to load the page instead of "the IPv6 one if available by 
default".
But if there's no way to know that and requests can even span multiple 
protocols in
the same page, I agree with you that the current behavior is a good one.

Original comment by lapo.luchini on 7 Apr 2008 at 9:56