g_network_address_new ()

GSocketConnectable *
g_network_address_new (const gchar *hostname,
                       guint16 port);

Creates a new GSocketConnectable for connecting to the given hostname and port .

Note that depending on the configuration of the machine, a hostname of localhost may refer to the IPv4 loopback address only, or to both IPv4 and IPv6; use g_network_address_new_loopback() to create a GNetworkAddress that is guaranteed to resolve to both addresses.

Since 2.22

g_network_address_new_loopback ()

GSocketConnectable *
g_network_address_new_loopback (guint16 port);

Creates a new GSocketConnectable for connecting to the local host over a loopback connection to the given port . This is intended for use in connecting to local services which may be running on IPv4 or IPv6.

The connectable will return IPv4 and IPv6 loopback addresses, regardless of how the host resolves localhost. By contrast, g_network_address_new() will often only return an IPv4 address when resolving localhost, and an IPv6 address for localhost6.

g_network_address_get_hostname() will always return localhost for GNetworkAddresses created with this constructor.

Since 2.44

g_network_address_parse ()

GSocketConnectable *
g_network_address_parse (const gchar *host_and_port,
                         guint16 default_port,
                         GError **error);

Creates a new GSocketConnectable for connecting to the given hostname and port . May fail and return NULL in case parsing host_and_port fails.

host_and_port may be in any of a number of recognised formats; an IPv6 address, an IPv4 address, or a domain name (in which case a DNS lookup is performed). Quoting with [] is supported for all address types. A port override may be specified in the usual way with a colon.

If no port is specified in host_and_port then default_port will be used as the port number to connect to.

In general, host_and_port is expected to be provided by the user (allowing them to give the hostname, and a port overide if necessary) and default_port is expected to be provided by the application.

(The port component of host_and_port can also be specified as a service name rather than as a numeric port, but this functionality is deprecated, because it depends on the contents of /etc/services, which is generally quite sparse on platforms other than Linux.)

Since 2.22

g_network_address_parse_uri ()

GSocketConnectable *
g_network_address_parse_uri (const gchar *uri,
                             guint16 default_port,
                             GError **error);

Creates a new GSocketConnectable for connecting to the given uri . May fail and return NULL in case parsing uri fails.

Using this rather than g_network_address_new() or g_network_address_parse() allows GSocketClient to determine when to use application-specific proxy protocols.

Since 2.26

g_network_address_get_hostname ()

const gchar *
g_network_address_get_hostname (GNetworkAddress *addr);

Gets addr 's hostname. This might be either UTF-8 or ASCII-encoded, depending on what addr was created with.

Since 2.22

g_network_address_get_port ()

guint16
g_network_address_get_port (GNetworkAddress *addr);

Gets addr 's port number

Since 2.22

g_network_address_get_scheme ()

const gchar *
g_network_address_get_scheme (GNetworkAddress *addr);

Gets addr 's scheme

Since 2.26

GNetworkAddress

typedef struct _GNetworkAddress GNetworkAddress;

A GSocketConnectable for resolving a hostname and connecting to that host.

The “hostname” property

  “hostname”                 gchar *

Hostname to resolve.

Flags: Read / Write / Construct Only

Default value: NULL

The “port” property

  “port”                     guint

Network port.

Flags: Read / Write / Construct Only

Allowed values: <= 65535

Default value: 0

The “scheme” property

  “scheme”                   gchar *

URI Scheme.

Flags: Read / Write / Construct Only

Default value: NULL