NetworkAddress.parse

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 override 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.)

class NetworkAddress
static
parse
(,)

Parameters

hostAndPort string

the hostname and optionally a port

defaultPort ushort

the default port if not in @host_and_port

Return Value

the new #GNetworkAddress, or %NULL on error

Throws

GException on failure.

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Since

2.22