helma.util
Class InetAddressFilter

java.lang.Object
  helma.util.InetAddressFilter

public class InetAddressFilter
extends java.lang.Object

A class for paranoid servers to filter IP addresses.

Constructor Summary

InetAddressFilter()
Creates a new InetAddressFilter object.

Method Summary

void	addAddress(java.lang.String address) Addes an address template to the address filter.
boolean	matches(java.net.InetAddress address) Check if the given address matches any of our patterns

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

InetAddressFilter

public InetAddressFilter()

Creates a new InetAddressFilter object.

Method Detail

addAddress

public void addAddress(java.lang.String address)
                throws java.io.IOException

Addes an address template to the address filter.

Parameters:

address - The string representation of the IP address, either version 4 or 6.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if the parameter does not represent a valid IP address

matches

public boolean matches(java.net.InetAddress address)

Check if the given address matches any of our patterns

Parameters:

address - the ip address to match

Returns:

true if we find a match