Re: [usocket-devel] Determining the local host address from wildcard host

Elliott Slaughter writes:

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Hans Hübner hans.huebner@gmail.com wrote:

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Elliott,

to my knowledge, usocket does not provide an API to get a list of all network interfaces, which is what you need to do if you want to know the local IP address(es).

One quick workaround is to invoke ifconfig and parse the output. I know that this is not a very satisfying or portable approach, but it is quick.

Thanks. I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Supposing that I wanted to find a more portable solution, would I need to write a custom CFFI wrapper over gethostbyname or getaddrinfo? And would this sort of functionality be considered for inclusion in usocket?

That seems more appropriate for IOLIB's socket interface.

-T.