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Re: Failure with libidn2 on OpenBSD.
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Alfred M. Szmidt |
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Re: Failure with libidn2 on OpenBSD. |
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Sun, 05 Apr 2020 14:05:44 -0400 |
> since Simon Josefsson and Tim Rühsen are both involved in libidn2,
> this bug is doubly relevant here.
The bug is more relevant because Simon and I are involved in libidn2 ?
I don't understand - could could explain ?
I think Mats-Erik simply meant that you/Simon might know something
about it. Thank you for adding help-libidn to the CC.
> which is to be expected of an IPv6 address. Similarly, the OpenBSD+libidn2
> call transforms the legal "::ffff:127.0.0.1" for the corrupted
"ffff127.0.0.1".
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> Thus the compatibility call idna_to_ascii_lz() in libidn2 strips off every
colon,
> when executed on OpenBSD but not on OpenIndiana. Explanation? Resolution?
> I get two failed tests with OpenBSD, but none with OpenIndiana!
The resolution is to update libidn2 to 2.3.0.
That isn't always possible or desirable, should we add a hack to
handle this for older versions of libidn2?