>>>>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:56:15 -0800, >>>>> Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> said:
>> 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. I'm not sure if we are synchronized...please let me check the scenario. What I wanted to say is: 1. assume we type "http://[fe80::1_de0]/"; in "the URL bar" of the browser. 2. then the browser parser parses the entire URL and extracts "fe80::1_de0" and (the trailing) "/" by recognizing "[" and "]" as delimiters. 3. the parser passes "fe80::1_de0" to getaddrinfo(), and gets a sockaddr_in6 structure (whose sin6_addr member is "fe80::1" and sin6_scope_id member is the link ID corresponding to interface "de0"). The browser uses the sockaddr_in6 structure with connect(2) to connect to the remote web server. 4. the parser parses "fe80::1_de0" further, and decomposes the string to "fe80::1" and "de0" by recognizing "_" as the delimiter. 5. when the connection is established, the browser sets "Host:" to "fe80::1" (extracted from "fe80::1_de0" in step 4). Is this okay so far? And if so, are you saying that the parsing in step 4 is not a problem since the parser already has to parse the input in step 2? JINMEI, Tatuya Communication Platform Lab. Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
