Re: [xml] Why does libxml2 limit port numbers to 99,999,999?

From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones redhat com>
To: xml gnome org, libguestfs redhat com, Eric Blake <eblake redhat com>, Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare redhat com>
Subject: Re: [xml] Why does libxml2 limit port numbers to 99,999,999?
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 11:29:56 +0100

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 11:24:31AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones via xml wrote:

The problem is that libxml2 arbitrarily limits port numbers to
999,999,999.  I don't see any support for this limit in RFC 3986 [2].


Actually I miscounted the number of 9's.  The limit is 99,999,999.
The rest still applies.

Rich.

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- [xml] Why does libxml2 limit port numbers to 999,999,999?
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