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Class Overview
A collection of checks for IP addresses. These utilities provide convenience methods not covered by the Java API.
Summary
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Gets a URI-safe address of an InetAddress.
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Gets an array of the publicly accesisble IP addresses of the JVM.
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Checks whether an InetAddress is a local (=virtual address space).
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From class
java.lang.Object
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Public Methods
public static String getAddressForURI (InetAddress address)
Gets a URI-safe address of an InetAddress. For example, returns
127.0.0.1 for localhost in IPv4, and [::1] for
localhost in IPv6.
Parameters
| address | The address to convert |
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Returns
- A string representation of the address that is safe to insert into a URI.
public static InetAddress[] getPublicAddresses ()
Gets an array of the publicly accesisble IP addresses of the JVM.
Returns
- an array of the publicly accesisble IP addresses of the JVM.
public static boolean isLocal (InetAddress address)
Checks whether an InetAddress is a local (=virtual address space). For example, 127.0.0.1 returns true, while 8.8.8.8 returns false.
Parameters
| address | The address to verify. |
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Returns
- true if the address is defined in an address space that is routable from the Internet, false otherwise.