query re IPv6 URL format

Gilles Dauphin dauphin@sig.enst.fr
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:49:18 +0200


> From brian@hursley.ibm.com Mon Oct 13 20:56:47 1997
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Has anybody implemented a Web browser that accepts IPv6 numeric
> addresses as part of a URL, and if so what format did you use?
> 
> (to be clear, I am after the IPv6 equivalent of
> the existing URL format such as http://194.196.110.160/~bc/ )
> 
> (also to be clear, the RFC 1884 syntax will break existing
> browsers)

Here is a comment I found in mMosaic . file libwww2/HTTCP.c :
	/* manage only non numeric adresses */
	/* RFC 2133 */

Gilles