- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:00:15 -0700
- To: "Lisa Dusseault" <ldusseault@xythos.com>
- Cc: <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
> RFC2616 says: "http_URL = "http:" "//" host [ ":" port ] [ abs_path [ > "?" query ]]" > > I can't find a definition of the host part. It does however say "The > use of IP addresses in URLs SHOULD be avoided whenever possible (see RFC > 1900 [24])." > > So: > - Does the wording in RFC2616 require support for IPv6 for HTTP > servers? Or does it merely skirt the issue? It doesn't say anything about it. > - Does anybody have any idea how HTTP servers and clients handle IPv6 > addresses in practice? Origin servers don't see them in practice. 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. > I assume RFC2518bis should update its references to RFC2396 to RFC2616, > which results in removing the restriction to IPv4 addresses only. 2616 defines the http URI scheme (poorly). 2396 defines all URI. You will need both references. ....Roy
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