IPv6 address/port format

[Jeremy Weatherford]

Using '>' anywhere would be a really bad choice, since it's both a shell
redirection character AND an HTML metacharacter.  Try making a hyperlink
to a URL with a '>' in the address...

The best option so far seems to be:

http://[aa.bb.cc.dd.ee.ff.gg.hh]:8080/url

I don't think this will worsen the problem that already exists with shell
metacharacters being present in URLs.

Jeremy Weatherford
xidus@xidus.net
http://xidus.net/

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Stephen Burley wrote:

> What is wrong with using > as a direction to a port symbol. We are making
> far too much of this. White space will do it always has up till now.
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> Stephen Burley
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> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 01:26:10PM +0100, MARAY Tamas wrote:
> > >Wrong. Conflicts with the UNIX shell.
> > 
> > There are multiple UNIX shells, or at least multiple shells in
> > use on UNIX (and UNIX-like) systems. I don't know if this conflicts
> > with all of them, but I doubt it. Your argument is valid, but no
> > matter which standard we choose, we will run into conflicts. We'll
> > just have to find out how to minimize those conflicts.
> > 
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