MINOR: lua: add ip addresses and network manipulation function
Add two functions core.parse_addr() and core.match_addr() where are used
for matching networks.
diff --git a/doc/lua-api/index.rst b/doc/lua-api/index.rst
index 77c2266..32ef143 100644
--- a/doc/lua-api/index.rst
+++ b/doc/lua-api/index.rst
@@ -582,6 +582,28 @@
Give back the hand at the HAProxy scheduler. It is used when the LUA
processing consumes a lot of processing time.
+.. js:function:: core.parse_addr(address)
+
+ **context**: body, init, task, action, sample-fetch, converter
+
+ :param network: is a string describing an ipv4 or ipv6 address and optionally
+ its network length, like this: "127.0.0.1/8" or "aaaa::1234/32".
+ :returns: a userdata containing network or nil if an error occurs.
+
+ Parse ipv4 or ipv6 adresses and its facultative associated network.
+
+.. js:function:: core.match_addr(addr1, addr2)
+
+ **context**: body, init, task, action, sample-fetch, converter
+
+ :param addr1: is an address created with "core.parse_addr".
+ :param addr2: is an address created with "core.parse_addr".
+ :returns: boolean, true if the network of the addresses matche, else returns
+ false.
+
+ Match two networks. For example "127.0.0.1/32" matchs "127.0.0.0/8". The order
+ of network is not important.
+
.. _proxy_class:
Proxy class