query re IPv6 URL format
Brian E Carpenter
brian@hursley.ibm.com
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:20:43 +0100
In other words they punted.
Thanks
Brian
>- Gilles Dauphin said:
>
>
> > 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
>