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RE: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

Spencer Dawkins <spencer_dawkins@yahoo.com> Wed, 02 April 2003 13:19 UTC

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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 05:08:33 -0800
From: Spencer Dawkins <spencer_dawkins@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))
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Hi, Jeroen,

Are you talking about
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2732.txt (PS)? 

My quick read of this RFC is that it says "don't use IPv6
literals without enclosing them in brackets", as in

      host          = hostname | IPv4address | IPv6reference
      ipv6reference = "[" IPv6address "]"

But that's not quite the same thing you said: "never use IPv6
IP's in URL's".

If you're talking about another reference, could you provide it?
A quick RFC search for "IPv6 URL" turned up only this RFC...

Thanks,

Spencer

--- Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:
> Also there is a RFC which
> says to never use IPv6 IP's in URL's... That's also why
> IE in XP doesn't support it. "Host" is now an integral
> part of HTTP/1.1 and one can't even do without it anymore.

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