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Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 22 November 2011 21:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs
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On 2011-11-19 05:03, François-Xavier Le Bail wrote:

...
>> In Linux, you can use any character in VLAN interface name :
>> examples:
>> ip link add link eth0 name eth0.5  type vlan id 5
>> ip link add link eth0 name eth0-6  type vlan id 6
>> ip link add link eth0 name eth0#7  type vlan id 7
>> ip link add link eth0 name eth0-8  type vlan id 8
>> ip link add link eth0 name eth0+9  type vlan id 9
>> ip link add link eth0 name eth0_10  type vlan id 10
>> ip link add link eth0 name eth0,11  type vlan id 11
>> ip link add link eth0 name eth0:::12  type vlan id 12
>> ip link add link eth0 name eth0.+-  type vlan id 13
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Francois-Xavier
> 
> Luckily, the "%" is invalid.

Unfortunately, the obvious subset in URI syntax is more limited:

   unreserved  = ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_" / "~"

If you could live without #+,.: it would be much simpler.

   Brian

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