I recently went through a similar experience of trying to get evhttp to
work as a client with IPv6. This evolved in the thread "evhttp client
error handling". Some of the most important posts in the thread are:
http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/Nov-2012/msg00015.html
http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/Jan-2013/msg00041.html
http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/Jan-2013/msg00057.html
Azat Khuzhin submitted a patch which improved IPv6 support:
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/pull/39
However, this patch is only in libevent/master, which is going to be
2.1, but it's too recent to be in the latest 2.1 tarball release, and
it's definitely not in 2.0. So you'll need to live on the bleeding edge
to get it.
I've been similarly frustrated with the lack of evhttp client examples,
especially ones that properly show how to do error handling, IPv6, and
https. I've created a repo (because it's just a little too big to feel
comfortable as a gist) with my code in it:
https://github.com/ppelleti/https-example
I'd like to (with some help) get this example into shape where it shows
the "best practices" for doing all these things, and then potentially
contribute it back to libevent, to go in the "sample" directory, because
currently the "sample" directory of the libevent repo only has an http
server example, but not an http client example. I've been told that the
reason there are so few examples is because the tests also serve as
examples, but personally I haven't found the tests all that satisfying
as examples, either. So, that's why I'd still like to contribute a
client/server example (including https, IPv6, and error handling) for
evhttp to the libevent "samples" directory.
Although Azat's patch is a good first step for IPv6 support in evhttp, I
think some more work is still necessary. In particular,
bufferevent_connect_getaddrinfo_cb() in bufferevent_sock.c has the
comment "XXX use the other addrinfos?". I think we need to do this, in
case a host has both an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address, but the server
is only running on IPv4 or IPv6, but not both. Currently, libevent will
only try the first address and give up, but I think it needs to try the
other one (e. g. IPv4) if the first one (e. g. IPv6) fails. This is the
problem I was running into, since "localhost" resolves to both "::1" and
"127.0.0.1", and my server was only running on "127.0.0.1". libevent
tried "::1" first, saw no server was running there, and gave up, rather
than moving on to "127.0.0.1" which would have succeeded.
The other thing people will tell you is to use libevhtp instead of
evhttp. If you don't need Windows support, you might want to look into
that. It's not an option for me, though, since I need a cross-platform
solution, and libevhtp doesn't (yet) support Windows.
--Patrick
On 02/14/2013 05:17 AM, Grega Kres wrote:
Hello,
I've written a simple program to get data off HTTP servers. The gist of
it is here: https://gist.github.com/gkres/4952640
It works as expected with ipv4, but I can't get it to work with ipv6. I
searched around a bit and I'm getting mixed answers about if this is
possible.
The libevent 2.0.21 source seems to suggest the socket is bound with
AF_INET but some people are claiming it can be done, but don't provide
any useful info beyond saying: "Libevent supports ipv6."
If this is in fact possible can someone help out with a working example?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
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