Represents an IP address, consisting of a IPv4 host address and a port number.
Can extract address information from an URI and
automatically converts host names to addresses, and offers the special hostnames "localhost", "any", "broadcast", "self" and "inetself" where:
- "localhost" will translate to 127.0.0.1
- "any" will translate to INADDR_ANY, which is 0.0.0.0
- "broadcast" will translate to INADDR_BROADCAST, which is 255.255.255.255
- "self" will translate to the first valid tcp/ip address for this host (there may be more then one address bound to the host)
- "inetself" will translate to the first host address which is not a LAN address (which is not a class A, B, or C network) if none such exists the address will fall back to "self"
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- (C) 2006 Radon Labs GmbH (C) 2013-2020 Individual contributors, see AUTHORS file