[6bone] Ipv6 Enabled Web Site

[Colin Faber]

Well the first thing you need to do is run an httpd which provides IPv6 
service. Apache 1.3 can support IPv6 by patching it, however I'd 
recommend running Apache 2.0 -- as it's IPv6 support is native.

Secondly regarding SSI -- As SSI (as far as I remember) does not support 
any kind of flow control functionality you'll need to script up 
something in shell, perl, php, etc. that can be included in the SSI 
document which checks the REMOTE_ADDR variable for the colons.

Something very simple in perl would be:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print ($ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} =~ /[A-Fa-f0-9]{4}:/ ? 'Remote host supports 
IPv6' : 'Remote host supports IPv4');

and including it in your ssi:

<!--#include virtual="/perlscript.pl"-->

Good luck.


Gav wrote:

>Where do you do your check for this Colin.
>
>I'd like to keep my Index page as a .shtml as my menus and footers are SSI 
>included ito the page.
>Rather than .php at this point.
>
>Thanks
>
>Gav...
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Colin Faber" <cfaber at fpsn.net>
>To: "Gav" <old_mc_donald at hotmail.com>
>Cc: <6bone at mailman.isi.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:39 AM
>Subject: Re: [6bone] Ipv6 Enabled Web Site
>
>
>| On my site (www.fpsn.net) to all we do is check for colons in the
>| REMOTE_ADDR environment variable (we also use apache 2) and it seems to
>| do the trick rather well.   With a successful IPv6 connection IPv6 users
>| see a small blurb at the bottom:
>|
>| ::I:P:v:6::
>|
>| Internet Protocol Version 6 aware user detected.
>|
>| Hope this helps.
>| 
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