Re: URL parsing and IPv6 addresses

Square brackets "[" "]" are currently not allowed in URLs, and are
listed as "unsafe":


>				Other characters are unsafe because
>   gateways and other transport agents are known to sometimes modify
>   such characters. These characters are "{", "}", "|", "\", "^", "~",
>   "[", "]", and "`".

two alternatives seem workable:

   1) dotted decimal with 8 parts instead of 4
   2) string of hex with no punctuation

- Larry