>Then the browser (parser) implementation would first extract >"fe80::1_de0" and pass it to getaddrinfo(3) for converting it to an >IPv6 address. So far, so good, but then the browser would also need >to modify the entire URL to: > > http://[fe80::1]/ > >before sending it to the web server on the home router
This part of the URL is already parsed out before it's sent - the GET argument in this case is just "/"; and the "Host:" header would contain fe80::1. Since it already had to parse it out to hand it to getaddrinfo, I don't see the problem with reusing that parsed result in the HTTP transaction. Bill -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
