Windows does not come with inet_aton(), and this check on IPv4 addresses
is actually not needed on Windows as the getaddrinfo() implementation on
Windows already rejects non-standard and non-real IPv4 numbers-and-dots
addresses.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724609
/* Reject non-standard IPv4 numbers-and-dots addresses.
* g_inet_address_new_from_string() will have accepted any "real" IP
* address, so if inet_aton() succeeds, then it's an address we want
- * to reject.
+ * to reject. This check is not necessary for Windows, as getaddrinfo()
+ * already rejects such IPv4 addresses on Windows.
*/
+#ifndef G_OS_WIN32
if (inet_aton (hostname, &ip4addr))
{
g_set_error (error, G_RESOLVER_ERROR, G_RESOLVER_ERROR_NOT_FOUND,
hostname, gai_strerror (EAI_NONAME));
return TRUE;
}
+#endif
return FALSE;
}