While working on a project, I discovered that hton[sl] and ntoh[sl] are missing from the networking libraries. It appears there was some justification for this, but I've fallen upon a few instances where things were *not* working as expected. (Specifically when newtype'ing around HostAddress.)

As such, I'm putting together a few extra functions that I think should exist in Network somewhere. I'm calling the package Network.Util (but am open to changes).

Currently this only has:

htons
htonl
ntohs
ntohl

Before I drop this on hackage:

Is there a reason I shouldn't do this?
Are there other suggestions for missing functions? (preferably cross-platform suggestions)

Thanks all.

/jve