APR::IpSubnet - Perl API for accessing APRs ip_subnet structures


NAME

APR::IpSubnet - Perl API for accessing APRs ip_subnet structures


Synopsis

  use APR::IpSubnet ();
  
  my $ipsub = APR::IpSubnet->new($pool, "127.0.0.1");
  $ok = $ipsub->test($sock_addr);


Description

APR::IpSubnet object represents a range of IP addresses (IPv4/IPv6). A socket connection can be matched against this range to test whether the IP it's coming from is inside or outside of this range.


API

APR::IpSubnet provides the following functions and/or methods:

new

Create an IP subnet represenation object

  $ipsubnet = APR::IpSubnet->new($pool, $ip);
  $ipsubnet = APR::IpSubnet->new($pool, $ip, $mask_or_numbits);
obj: APR::IpSubnet (class name)
arg1: $pool ( APR::Pool object|docs::2.0::api::APR::Pool )
arg2: $ip ( string )
IP address in one of the two formats: IPv4 (e.g. ``127.0.0.1'') or IPv6 (e.g. ``::1''). IPv6 addresses are accepted only if APR has the IPv6 support enabled.

opt arg3: $mask_or_numbits ( string )
An optional IP mask (e.g. ``255.0.0.0'') or number of bits (e.g. ``15'').

If none provided, the default is not to mask off.

ret: $ret ( APR::IpSubnet object|docs::2.0::api::APR::IpSubnet )
The IP-subnet object

excpt: APR::Error|docs::2.0::api::APR::Error
since: 1.99_15

test

Test the IP address in the socket address object against a pre-built ip-subnet representation.

  $ret = $ipsub->test($sockaddr);
obj: $ipsub ( APR::IpSubnet object|docs::2.0::api::APR::IpSubnet )
The ip-subnet representation

arg1: $sockaddr ( APR::SockAddr object|docs::2.0::api::APR::SockAddr )
The socket address to test

ret: $ret ( boolean )
true if the socket address is within the subnet, false otherwise

since: 1.99_15

This method is used for testing whether or not an address is within a subnet. It's used by module mod_access to check whether the client IP fits into the IP range, supplied by Allow/Deny directives.

Example:

Allow accesses only from the localhost (IPv4):

  use APR::IpSubnet ();
  use Apache2::Connection ();
  use Apache2::RequestRec ();
  my $ipsub = APR::IpSubnet->new($r->pool, "127.0.0.1");
  ok $ipsub->test($r->connection->remote_addr);


See Also

mod_perl 2.0 documentation.


Copyright

mod_perl 2.0 and its core modules are copyrighted under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0.


Authors

The mod_perl development team and numerous contributors.

 APR::IpSubnet - Perl API for accessing APRs ip_subnet structures