- From: Kim <bookwyrm@agii.solluna.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 09:12:20 -0400 (EDT)
- To: dee@cybercash.com (Donald E. Eastlake 3rd)
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Earlier, <Donald E. Eastlake 3rd> inscribed: > > How about just putting square brakets around the address. I thought IPv4, > and presumably IPv6, raw addresses were supposed to bge noted that way. > so you would have, for example, http://[::83F7:6C0E]:8080/ or > http://[::83F7:6C0E:8080]/ Well, my copy of netscape refuses to parse that notation for IPv4 addresses, as does Lynx: http://[131.247.108.14]:80/ If there is a standards document that points to this, I would appreciate the reference. I dislike this idea because it adds more special characters, the '[' and ']' to parse. Also, it would make more sense to put them around the port specifier - http://131.247.108.14[:80]/ - as that allows them to be omitted in the default case. Kim
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