This is a convenience method for creating a GNetworkAddress which is
guaranteed to return IPv4 and IPv6 loopback addresses. The program
cannot guarantee that 'localhost' will resolve to both types of
address, so programs which wish to connect to a local service over
either IPv4 or IPv6 must currently manually create an IPv4 and another
IPv6 socket, and detect which of the two are working. This new API
allows the existing GSocketConnectable machinery to be used to
automate that.
Based on a patch from Philip Withnall.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732317
Add the GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL annotation to all old functions (that
haven't already been annotated with the GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_* macros or a
deprecation macro).
If we discover in the future that we cannot use only one macro on
Windows, it will be an easy sed patch to fix that.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688681
This method allow creating a network address from a URI. If no port is
found in the URI, the default_port parameter will be used. Note that new
property scheme is there for future TLS implementation.
Reviewed-by: Dan Winship <danw@gnome.org>
Higher-level wrappers around GResolver. GSocketConnectable provides an
interface for synchronously or asynchronously iterating multiple
socket addresses, with GNetworkAddress and GNetworkService providing
interfaces based on hostname and SRV record resolution.
Part of #548466.
