Re: [virt-viewer] virt-viewer: Don't connect to localhost displays with qemu+tcp://

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Hi Christophe, this is an old patch, but it seems that it never got
pushed upstream. Would you like me to push it for you?


On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 19:09 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 09:30:12AM -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> > It seems that this would fix the vast majority of cases, but it also may
> > be a bit too simplistic? For example, if the 'listen' address was some
> > string that was not literally "localhost" but still mapped to the
> > loopback address, virt_viewer_is_loopback() would return FALSE. This
> > seems like an improbable scenario, and maybe we don't care about it,
> > though.
> 
> Yup, there are most likely various corner cases where this will still
> break. We probably cannot (easily) solve all of them, so as long as this
> patch does not raise an error in a situation where the connection would
> have worked as expected, I'd say it's a good improvement.
> We can refine it later when we have examples of failures this patch does
> not handle.
> 
> Christophe


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