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browsers cant even open ipv6 ips in the address bar. this makes debugging local services annoying sometimes
by sitzkrieg 3y ago
browsers cant even open ipv6 ips in the address bar. this makes debugging local services annoying sometimes
- tristan957 3y agoFirefox will open this. http://[2606:7100:1:67::26]/ http://[2606:7100:1:67::26]/
- sitzkrieg 3y agoi stand corrected, this is good news thank you
- tristan957 3y agoI'm curious why we need the square brackets.
- Dagger2 3y agoURLs use : to separate the IP and port. There needs to be some way to disambiguate that from the colons in the address.
- tristan957 3y agoBut if a URL has more than one colon, can't you assume is an IPv6 address?
- Dagger2 3y agoYou can't tell if there's a port or not, e.g. http://2001:db8::1:8080/ http://2001:db8::1:8080/. Is that 2001:db8::1 or 2001:db8::1:8080?
- patmorgan23 3y agoTo disambiguate between the IP and port numbers