Re: [Boost.Asio] service_name/port inconsistency

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Boris wrote:

>> [...]a) What is the point passing endpoint_type, when we know for sure that
>> endpoint will only accept address which *cannot* be a FQDN. What do we
>> achieve by doing this?
>
> If I'm not mistaken it's basically a wrapper for getnameinfo().

Maybe I haven't expressed myself correctly.

resolver.resolve(endpoint) - does not resolve anything since the endpoint 
can only be expressed in dotted decimal form, or in hexadecimal
notation.

>> b) To be more precise: How come basic_resolver_query does not take
>> unsigned short as a parameter for service/port?
>
> I don't know why but you can pass a port number by converting it to a 
> std::string.

Yeah, that's what I'm dong (lexical cast) in order to keep the code
simple and generic.

Thanks!

V