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An IPv6 literal hostname in a URL must be surrounded by square brackets.
by pocksuppet 6mo ago
An IPv6 literal hostname in a URL must be surrounded by square brackets.
- fortran77 6mo agoChrome and Edge still do a search on it in my default search engine even with [] https://[fe80::5ad6:9567:26b7:763b%18]:8081/ Even Hacker News doesn't think it's a link
- deleted 6mo ago[deleted]
- 1718627440 6mo agoOn Mozilla Firefox after reenabling the separation into URL and searchbar it reports: "Invalid URL – Hmm. That address doesn’t look right. \n Please check that the URL is correct and try again." What does the '%' mean in there?
- pocksuppet 6mo agoFor link-local addresses, the part after % identifies the link. It's platform-specific - in Linux it's the interface name and in Windows it's an ID number.