On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Kjell Ericson wrote:

> Isn't the solution to the problem that you should accept this as a valid
> pattern? (Uhum, sounded too easy). What I mean is that if you recognize
> this as an illegal pattern (and even the position) then it would be easy
> to do a check whenever the error occurs and call a fallback routine to
> handle this pattern.

Oh darn it, how beautiful! I am just too stupid at times. Of course that's
the simple solution! Anything matching '[<hexdigits>:<hexdigits or : * X>]'
is of course an IPv6 IP address.

Thanks!

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  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/