Safari: IPv6 and IPv4, is there a way of knowing which is being used for a site?

[woolypants]

Just as the title suggests. There's an extension for other browsers but no Safari version.

 

[bogdanw]

A recent thread about monitoring connections https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-processes-after-updating-to-sequoia.2453388/
I use Netiquette https://objective-see.org/products/netiquette.html
In Settings, uncheck "Hide Apple Processes". Safari connections appear under com.apple.WebKit.Networking

 

[gilby101]

I use Netiquette https://objective-see.org/products/netiquette.html

I prefer PortsMonitor. It shows a little more than Netiquette.

There's an extension for other browsers but no Safari version.

PortsMonitor shows Safari connections.

Be aware that for Safari there can be confusion due to a) the use of iCloud Private Relay, and b) increasing use of UDP. For example, my Safari makes IPv6 UDP connections to Apple's iCloud Relay servers and not much else. Also related issues with full VPN products.

 

[svenmany]

If there is a current communication happening between safari and website "abc.com", you could see that traffic in terminal:

sudo tcpdump -n host abc.com

That should show you either ipv4 or ipv6 addresses involved in the transfer. (unless you are using some VPN-like thing like Private Relay)

 

[bogdanw]

To answer the original question:
"IPvFoo cannot be ported to Safari because the webRequest API does not report IP addresses. In theory, a Safari extension could do its own DNS lookups over HTTPS, but such behavior is beyond the scope of IPvFoo."
https://github.com/pmarks-net/ipvfoo

 

[nmt1900]

This probably explains why IPvFoo does not work on Orion...