22 Oct
2012
22 Oct
'12
6:34 p.m.
On 10/22/12 14:19, Juha Heinanen wrote:
to me it makes sense to store addresses only in canonical format to database in order to make sure that address comparison can be made uniquely.
Using the string representation of an address for anything other than to provide a human readable version of it is not a good idea. That's true not only for IPv6 addresses: http://3239475010/ (doesn't work in IE IIRC).
If you want to compare addresses in code, use raw 128-bit addresses.
cheers