[10184] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL parsing and IPv6 addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kim)
Tue Aug 6 14:04:06 1996
From: Kim <bookwyrm@agii.solluna.org>
To: david@ufl.edu (David Nessl)
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:56:13 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960806130912.12649A-100000@maverick.nerdc.ufl.edu> from "David Nessl" at Aug 6, 96 01:39:07 pm
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Earlier, <David Nessl> inscribed:
>
> 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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>
