Browsers and link-local IPv6 address literals

Simon Perreault simon.perreault at viagenie.ca
Wed Feb 5 16:49:13 CET 2014


Wow. IE 11 implements RFC 6874 perfectly.

This is a shame.

Simon

Le 2014-02-05 10:43, Simon Perreault a écrit :
> 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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