- From: Kim <bookwyrm@agii.solluna.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 18:55:05 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-talk@w3.org
Earlier, <Shel Kaphan> inscribed:
>
> How about just using some other punctuation besides ":" before port numbers
> in URLs for IPv6, for example ";"? Surely the URL parser is going to have
> to know whether it's an IPv4 or IPv6 IP address by the time it gets
> that far.
";" would be a very bad character in my opinion -
"http://100.100.100.100;/bin/rm -rf /"
could cause a lot of problems in poorly written scripts that process
URLs. Shell characters should be avoided as much as possible, I think.
I could live with the use of "." to separate the port in IPv6 addresses,
though it does allow "http://::131.247.108.14.80/", that is not an
ambiguous representation.
Kim
Received on Wednesday, 7 August 1996 18:50:35 UTC