- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:04:14 +0200
- To: Dale Anderson <dra@redevised.net>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
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 > > 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>. Best regards, Julian
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