IP address 127.0.0.1 is not valid

Hi @liquidcms what do you mean by

Why is 127.0.0.1 not allowed?

Could you please explain:
- Expected functionality
- Current functionality

and if you know, which code or UI element you're talking about, could you please give a reference?

Thanks!

I can reproduce the issue.. looking into it.

For some reason we're not allowing IPs in the reserved range. Not sure that is needed.
FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE FILTER_VALIDATE_IP

Fails validation for the following reserved IPv4 ranges: 0.0.0.0/8, 169.254.0.0/16, 127.0.0.0/8 and 240.0.0.0/4.
Fails validation for the following reserved IPv6 ranges: ::1/128, ::/128, ::ffff:0:0/96 and fe80::/10.
These are the ranges that are marked as Reserved-By-Protocol in » RFC 6890.

Added a PR that removes the Reserved Range, but maintains the Validate IP filter.

The functionality was added here: #2220275: Allow for skipping captcha based on IP Address or IP Range → the reservation has already been part of the first patch and I agree, I can't see a good reason for that. To be 100% sure we could ask https://www.drupal.org/u/darrellduane → for the reasons, he created the patch.

BTW, is there any good way to write a test for this and mock the test client IP address?

I'm fine with RTBC'ing this otherwise, as the fix is simple enough.

There is a way to add a test, however that will involve adding test coverage to the settings form itself. While I could do that, it seems a little outside the scope of this issue.

@liquidcms would you perhaps like to review and test it? As written above, we don't use it, but we might push things forward then.
From the code-side LGTM!

Thanks @japerry I reviewed the issue and I think the change is correct. Never really made sense to me.

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.