[svn] Don't auto-set opt.ipv4_only on systems without IPv6 sockets.

[wget] / src / init.c

diff --git a/src/init.c b/src/init.c
index 220c8c00f8d7d998dafd5c50b4f9fdbd46b99e29..f97ba3a9169c75eae3a351a7b8f2306b68525029 100644 (file)
--- a/src/init.c
+++ b/src/init.c
@@ -304,30 +304,6 @@ defaults (void)
   opt.restrict_files_os = restrict_windows;
 #endif
   opt.restrict_files_ctrl = 1;
-
-#ifdef ENABLE_IPV6
-# ifndef HAVE_GETADDRINFO_AI_ADDRCONFIG
-  /* If IPv6 is enabled, but AI_ADDRCONFIG is missing, check whether
-     we can create AF_INET6 sockets.  If we can't, turn on the
-     --inet4-only setting.  This is necessary because on some systems
-     (e.g. RHL 9) getaddrinfo resolves AAAA records, but socket()
-     can't even create an AF_INET6 socket, let alone connect to IPv6
-     hosts.  To avoid "address family not supported" error messages,
-     we set ipv4_only.
-
-     We do it as early as here, so that the user can revert the
-     settingn using --no-inet4-only, in case he wants to see the error
-     messages, for whatever reason.  */
-  {
-    int sock = socket (AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
-    if (sock < 0)
-      opt.ipv4_only = -1;      /* special value -1 because the option
-                                  was not specified by the user.  */
-    else
-      close (sock);
-  }
-# endif /* not HAVE_GETADDRINFO_AI_ADDRCONFIG */
-#endif /* ENABLE_IPV6 */
 }
 \f
 /* Return the user's home directory (strdup-ed), or NULL if none is