- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:08:53 -0700
- To: "Lisa Dusseault" <ldusseault@xythos.com>
- Cc: <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
> WebDAV (RFC2518) imports its URL scheme definition from HTTP 1.1 > (RFC2396). HTTP says: > > "The host is a domain name of a network host, or its IPv4 address as > a > set of four decimal digit groups separated by ".". Literal IPv6 > addresses are not supported." > > hostport = host [ ":" port ] > host = hostname | IPv4address > > Does that mean that WebDAV *cannot* support IPv6 addresses? Until I > started looking into this, I naively assumed that WebDAV already did > support IPv6 addresses, or could easily. If WebDAV imports by reference (not cut-n-paste), then its reference is updated by the RFCs that update 2396, one of which defines the literal IPv6 address. ....Roy
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