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tristan957
on Jan 23, 2024
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Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6
Firefox will open this.
http://[2606:7100:1:67::26]/
sitzkrieg
on Jan 23, 2024
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i stand corrected, this is good news thank you
tristan957
on Jan 23, 2024
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I'm curious why we need the square brackets.
Dagger2
on Jan 23, 2024
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URLs use : to separate the IP and port. There needs to be some way to disambiguate that from the colons in the address.
tristan957
on Jan 24, 2024
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But if a URL has more than one colon, can't you assume is an IPv6 address?
Dagger2
on Jan 24, 2024
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You can't tell if there's a port or not, e.g.
http://2001:db8::1:8080/
. Is that 2001:db8::1 or 2001:db8::1:8080?
patmorgan23
on Jan 24, 2024
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To disambiguate between the IP and port numbers
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