IPv6 address/port format

[Keith Owens]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:26:10 +0100 (MET), 
MARAY Tamas <maray@fsz.bme.hu> wrote:
>> >    and for urls: http://[..v6 address..]:port/dir/dir.....
>>
>> Seems the best solution to me, as a very new user of IPv6. It is the
>> closest solution compared to IPv4 Syntax.
>
>Wrong. Conflicts with the UNIX shell.

Right, if you care about proposed standards.  RFC 2732 says to use

http://[FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:3210]:80/index.html

If you disagree with RFC 2732, take it up with the Internet standards
process.

In any case, there are a lot of characters that conflict with the Unix
shell, all of which are valid in the pathname section of a URL.  '?'
means "any character" to some shells, does that mean we forbid its use
for CGI scripts?