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Commit 2362cbfd authored by ocelot-inc's avatar ocelot-inc
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Fixes gh-1421 Document ipv4 vs ipv6 box.cfg.listen semantics

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......@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ for login, a password, a host name or host IP address, and a port number. Only
the port number is always mandatory. The password is mandatory if the user
name is specified, unless the user name is 'guest'. So, formally, the URI
syntax is ``[host:]port`` or ``[username:password@]host:port``.
If host is omitted, then 'localhost' is assumed.
If host is omitted, then '0.0.0.0' or '[::]' is assumed,
meaning respectively any IPv4 address or any IPv6 address,
on the local machine.
If username:password is omitted, then 'guest' is assumed. Some examples:
.. _generic syntax for a URI schema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#Generic_syntax
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