IPv6 address is shown even if Firefox didn't use it to actually connect about firefox-showip

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Firefox may even mix IPv4 and IPv6 requests on the same page and use different 
IPs
for different page elements. There is nothing we can do about that :-( - at 
least I
don't know a way to force firefox to use IPv6 addresses if available. Please 
file a
bug with firefox if that concerns you.

Thanks,

Jan

Original comment by [email protected] on 6 Apr 2008 at 8:18

• Changed state: WontFix

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Sorry, I didn't express myself well enough: I didn't mean to imply that ShowIP 
should
change Firefox's behavior in any way (I would consider that a bad thing) but 
rather I
would have preferred ShowIP to show the actual IP used for the specific TCP
connection used to load the page instead of "the IPv6 one if available by 
default".
But if there's no way to know that and requests can even span multiple 
protocols in
the same page, I agree with you that the current behavior is a good one.

Original comment by lapo.luchini on 7 Apr 2008 at 9:56