- From: Joe Orton <joe@manyfish.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:39:02 +0100
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:00:15PM -0700, Roy Fielding wrote: > > - Does anybody have any idea how HTTP servers and clients handle IPv6 > > addresses in practice? > > Origin servers don't see them in practice. Host headers may contain IPv6 addresses though, clients will send these (at least Mozilla will). > I think we enabled IPv6 > literals > for Apache httpd's mod_proxy in 2.0, but I haven't verified. I don't > know about clients -- check the Mozilla port to IPv6. It looks like the URI parser in 2.0 doesn't know about the IPv6 address syntax from RFC2372... a request like this fails with a 400 error: MOVE /dav/a HTTP/1.1 Host: [feed::1]:8080 Destination: http://[feed::1]:8080/dav/b Regards, joe
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