Browsers and link-local IPv6 address literals

Simon Perreault simon.perreault at viagenie.ca
Wed Feb 5 16:43:46 CET 2014


Am I becoming crazy or do URIs such as these no longer work?

http://[fe80::1%em0]/
http://[fe80::1%25em0]/
http://[fe80::1%em0]:80/
http://[fe80::1%25em0]:80/

I tested Firefox 26.0 and Chrome 32.0.1700.102 on Fedora 20. The
browsers just pass the whole string to Google. There seems to be no
attempt at connecting: no ND, no SYN, nothing. Just straight to Google.

Did we completely fail with RFC 6874?

Simon
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