Merged out from trunkQPID-2519

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/branches/QPID-2519@1187375 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/cpp/src/qpid/Url.cpp b/cpp/src/qpid/Url.cpp
index ab796f4642..f699b60c17 100644
--- a/cpp/src/qpid/Url.cpp
+++ b/cpp/src/qpid/Url.cpp
@@ -156,11 +156,12 @@ class UrlParser {
         return false;
     }
 
-    // TODO aconway 2008-11-20: this does not fully implement
-    // http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt. Works for DNS names and
-    // ipv4 literals but won't handle ipv6.
+    // A liberal interpretation of http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt.
+    // Works for DNS names and and ipv4 and ipv6 literals
     // 
     bool host(string& h) {
+        if (ip6literal(h)) return true;
+
         const char* start=i;
         while (unreserved() || pctEncoded())
             ;
@@ -169,6 +170,22 @@ class UrlParser {
         return true;
     }
 
+    // This is a bit too liberal for IPv6 literal addresses, but probably good enough
+    bool ip6literal(string& h) {
+        if (literal("[")) {
+            const char* start = i;
+            while (hexDigit() || literal(":") || literal("."))
+                ;
+            const char* end = i;
+            if ( end-start < 2 ) return false; // Smallest valid address is "::"
+            if (literal("]")) {
+                h.assign(start, end);
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
     bool unreserved() { return (::isalnum(*i) || ::strchr("-._~", *i)) && advance(); }
 
     bool pctEncoded() { return literal("%") && hexDigit() && hexDigit(); }