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
>