- From: Hallam-Baker <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:29:48 -0500 (EST)
- To: Ross Patterson <Ross_Patterson@ns.reston.vmd.sterling.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Ross Writes: > Yes, but so will IPv6. Despite some assertions to the contrary, it is > still possible that IPv6 domain literals will need to be supported in > URLs. The jury won't be in until we see a lot of serious IPv6 > deployment. And generic parsers already have the colon problem with > "ftp://user:password@host:port/..." URLs. Not that all of them succeed, > though. A long time ago there was an idea that the syntax of all the URLs be common. That is they would all share the form scheme://host:port/ whatever. This scheme was villified by the gopher people who were obsessing about some corner case on an obscure platform thats now practically defunct. The user@password bit is IMHO an abomination. It should not be in the locator, at most the username has a place there - but people didn't care about security much then. Anyone who doesn't think that there will be a need for IPv6 domain literals should ponder the fact that nobody was ever meant to need to write URLs at all - or at most in extreeme circumstances. Tim's Next browser/editor kept them where they should be - hidden from view. Phill
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