Re: Next steps for rfc6874bis

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 12 August 2021 18:12 UTC

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Kerry Lynn <kerlyn=40ieee.org@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
    > If I could add my $0.02 (even though I'm not current on all the
    > discussions and details): - I believe http://[fe80::%eth0] _used to
    > work_ in Mozilla browsers; we're talking maybe early 2000s. The

I concur. It did work.
In the days when it was just a location bar, and not a search bar.
I'm told that it's the combinatorics that is part of the challenge.

    > cognitive dissonance of "%25<nn>" is problematic.  - If the browser
    > community cannot support this, then we could perhaps develop a patch
    > for cURL to make it available at least for the engineering community (I
    > haven't checked cURL to see if it's already supported).

The current syntax works in curl.
I think it also works in the midori browser.

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