Mailing List Archive: Browsers and link-local IPv6 address literals

Browsers and link-local IPv6 address literals

Feb 5, 2014, 7:43 AM

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Am I becoming crazy or do URIs such as these no longer work?

http://[fe80::1%em0]/
http://[fe80::1%25em0]/
http://[fe80::1%em0]:80/
http://[fe80::1%25em0]:80/

I tested Firefox 26.0 and Chrome 32.0.1700.102 on Fedora 20. The
browsers just pass the whole string to Google. There seems to be no
attempt at connecting: no ND, no SYN, nothing. Just straight to Google.

Did we completely fail with RFC 6874?

Simon
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Re: Browsers and link-local IPv6 address literals [ In reply to ]

simon.perreault at viagenie

Feb 5, 2014, 7:49 AM

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Wow. IE 11 implements RFC 6874 perfectly.

This is a shame.

Simon

Le 2014-02-05 10:43, Simon Perreault a écrit :
> Am I becoming crazy or do URIs such as these no longer work?
>
> http://[fe80::1%em0]/
> http://[fe80::1%25em0]/
> http://[fe80::1%em0]:80/
> http://[fe80::1%25em0]:80/
>
> I tested Firefox 26.0 and Chrome 32.0.1700.102 on Fedora 20. The
> browsers just pass the whole string to Google. There seems to be no
> attempt at connecting: no ND, no SYN, nothing. Just straight to Google.
>
> Did we completely fail with RFC 6874?
>
> Simon
>

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Re: Browsers and link-local IPv6 address literals [ In reply to ]

owens at nysernet

Feb 5, 2014, 7:59 AM

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On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 10:43:46AM -0500, Simon Perreault wrote:
> Am I becoming crazy or do URIs such as these no longer work?
>
> http://[fe80::1%em0]/
> http://[fe80::1%25em0]/
> http://[fe80::1%em0]:80/
> http://[fe80::1%25em0]:80/
>
> I tested Firefox 26.0 and Chrome 32.0.1700.102 on Fedora 20. The
> browsers just pass the whole string to Google. There seems to be no
> attempt at connecting: no ND, no SYN, nothing. Just straight to Google.

It appears they haven't worked for some time, at least on Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700999

Bill.

Re: Browsers and link-local IPv6 address literals [ In reply to ]

simon.perreault at viagenie

Feb 5, 2014, 8:02 AM

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Le 2014-02-05 10:59, Bill Owens a écrit :
> It appears they haven't worked for some time, at least on Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700999

Thanks for the pointer. I added my vote.

Simon
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Re: Browsers and link-local IPv6 address literals [ In reply to ]

dougb at dougbarton

Feb 5, 2014, 10:57 AM

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On 02/05/2014 08:02 AM, Simon Perreault wrote:
> Le 2014-02-05 10:59, Bill Owens a écrit :
>> It appears they haven't worked for some time, at least on Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700999
>
> Thanks for the pointer. I added my vote.

+1