bug#54624: 29.0.50; textsec and ipv6 addresses

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:

> I agree that is desirable. If a strict parse is impractical (not sure if it is), what about something slightly stricter than what we current have? Here is a straw-man proposal:
>
>     (rx-let ((octet (or "0" (: (in "1-9") (? (in "0-9") (? (in "0-9"))))))
>              (ipv4 (: octet (= 3 "."  octet)))
>              (hextet (** 1 4 (in "0-9a-f")))
>              (ipv6 (: (? "::") hextet (* ":" (? ":") hextet)
>                       (? (or "::" (: ":" ipv4) )))))
>       (rx bos (or ipv4 ipv6 (: "[" ipv6 "]")) eos))

Skimming that, it seems a bit too strict, but perhaps I'm misreading it.

> and don't forget to bind case-fold-search to nil while calling string-match-p since IPv6 specifies lower-case hex digits.

Again, we're not trying to create a strict validator here.  We're just
saying something about suspiciousness -- invalid addresses aren't, in
and of themselves, suspicious.

(And most resolvers will accept upper-case hex digits just fine.)

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