Re: IPV6 literal URL format mention might be useful

You know, you're right and I am infamous (amongst me, Myself, and I..) for
typoing 3896 for 3986 maybe I mis-grepped when I was scanning for mention of
IPv6.

Thank you, I guess 3986 does cover this, and httpbis is littered with
references to 3986 so OK. Sorry for the waste of time. Wow.

Regards,

Dale

2011/10/7 Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>

> On 2011-10-07 19:41, Dale Anderson wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Mr. Nottingham et. al
>>
>> I never came across this and had assumed due to no luck and trouble with
>> syntax that IPv6 literals were not supported in URLs. I think HTTP
>> engineer types will naturally run into this and may not look elsewhere
>> than 'httpbis' and RFC3986 URL scheme for this kind of information. I
>> found RFC2732 which specifically addresses IPv6 literals and this works
>> with my firefox browser and also with curl (must specify -g to avoid
>> parsing error).
>>
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/**rfc2732.html<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2732.html>
>>
>> I don't propose exactly WHERE, but I would consider putting some mention
>> of IPv6 literal URL scheme into the 'httpbis' for such HTTP engineers to
>> more easily find, because it is the place they will most naturally look.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Dale Anderson
>>
>
> HTTPbis uses the "authority" ABNF term from RFC 3986. RFC 3986 allows IPv6,
> see <http://greenbytes.de/tech/**webdav/rfc3986.html#rfc.**section.3.2.2<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3986.html#rfc.section.3.2.2>
> >.
>
> Best regards, Julian
>