Feature #3953: TCPSocket / UDPSocket do not accept IPAddr objects.

• Status: Assigned
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: knu (Akinori MUSHA)
• Target version: -

[postmodern (Hal Brodigan)]

=begin
I noticed that TCPSocket/UDPSocket only accept String IPs/Hostnames, but not IPAddr objects. This is counter-intuitive since IP Addresses, along with Hostnames, are used to connect/bind to sockets.

 require 'socket'
 require 'resolv'
 
 ip = IPAddr.new(Resolv.getaddress('www.example.com'))
 sock = TCPSocket.new(ip,80)
 TypeError: can't convert IPAddr into String
from (irb):5:in `initialize'
from (irb):5:in `new'
from (irb):5

=end

[akr (Akira Tanaka)]

• Description updated (diff)

If we implement this feature, we need a method for duck type, such as IPAddr#to_ipaddress to convert to IP-address string.

[nahi (Hiroshi Nakamura)]

• Category set to ext
• Assignee set to knu (Akinori MUSHA)

knu, how do you think?

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Target version set to 2.6

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Target version deleted (2.6)