[10220] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL parsing and IPv6 addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kim)
Fri Aug 16 11:38:01 1996
From: Kim <bookwyrm@agii.solluna.org>
To: brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com (Brandon Gillespie)
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:39:52 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960816091607.7578A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com> from "Brandon Gillespie" at Aug 16, 96 09:19:07 am
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Earlier, <Brandon Gillespie> inscribed:
>
> Actually, using '.' is also backwards compatable, just change the URL
> spec so that either '.' or ':' can be the port seperator on a IPv4 addr,
> and a '.' will also work with v6. You know a v4 addr is a quad, so the
> fifth seperation is going to be the port, ala:
>
> 0.0.0.0.80
>
> The only problem from that point is figuring out if its a hostname or an
> address :)
Probably the easiest way is to test to see if the last part is a decimal
port number. I do not think there are any purely numerical TLDs.
Kim
(Hm. I wonder if that is why the IPv6 folks chose : instead of . It might
be hard to tell if something like "feed.cafe.ca" is a domain name or a
hexadecimal IP address.)
