Hi William, Thanks a lot for your response.
Mozilla allows me to specify the %zone_id (scope_id) in the HTTP request but as mentioned by you, it updates in "Host:" header field in HTTP request. Regards, Sathya On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:37 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net>wrote: > sathya sai wrote: > > Thanks guys for your continous support :-) > > > > From http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3879.txt, I could understand that > > IPv6 site local address (FEC0 prefixed) is deprecated and not the link > > local address (FC80 prefix). > > > > I think, now I would need to see if I can somehow specify the link local > > address without scope-id in my client. Mozilla and IE web browsers > > definitely seems to be not allowing me to do it. > > Ok; now I have a better sense. For Mozilla, please do install the > http-headers add-in, so you can see what is being transmitted. > > From RFC4007 section 11.2, referring to %zone_id; > > It cannot be assumed that indices are common across all nodes in a > zone (see Section 6). Hence, the format MUST be used only within a > node and MUST NOT be sent on the wire unless every node that > interprets the format agrees on the semantics. > > I read this to say that zone_id's should not be propogated in httpd > headers. There is another question of whether the %zone_id should be > permitted in proxy machine names, listen directives, etc. > > Can you spell out for us if Mozilla and IE refuse to let you specify > the %zone_id in the request, and if so, do they try to pass it on in > the Host; header (look using common sniffing tools such as the http > headers add-in)? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
