[10183] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL parsing and IPv6 addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Nessl)
Tue Aug 6 13:44:55 1996
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:39:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Nessl <david@ufl.edu>
To: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <960806.103807.CDT.TROTH@ua1vm.ua.edu>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
The square brackets around an IP address are from RFC822:
o Square brackets ("[" and "]") are used to indicate the
presence of a domain-literal, which the appropriate
name-domain is to use directly, bypassing normal
name-resolution mechanisms
This would seem to be an appropriate URL extension -- put the IPv6 address
inside square brackets, and leave the :port outside. For example:
http://[1:2:3:4:5:6]:8000
This extension should be generalized, e.g. programs should also be
prepared to accept IPv4 dotted-decimal addresses inside square brackets.
e.g.
http://[1.2.3.4]:8000
Determination of the address type (IPv4 vs IPv6) should be left to the
host's network services (based on the presence of colons or periods).
David Nessl -- Coordinator, Computer Systems (systems programmer)
E-mail: david@ufl.edu | Northeast Regional Data Center
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