> The lack of IPv6 literal address support in the version of wininet.dll > that shipped with Windows XP was for reasons of engineering > expediency,
in other words, MS deliberately shipped a broken product. > I do, however, also remember a discussion on one of the IPv6 mailing > lists about this, and it seemed that there were several members of the > IPv6 community at large who thought it was great that we weren't > currently supporting them. Apparently there are those who think > hard-coding IP addresses (of any version) in URLs is a bad idea. yes, there are those who think that it's desirable to force all apps to suffer the delays and unreliability of DNS every time a connection is established. they are deluded. Keith
