IPv6 address on Safari 8

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.email
Tue Oct 28 18:14:48 CET 2014


On 10/27/14 11:25 AM, Michael Chang wrote:
> On OS X 10.9.5 and Safari 7.1 (9537.85.10.17.1) I see:
>
> [2a02:ed8:4444::8] yields "first part of its address is not valid".
> [2a02:0ed8:4444::8] (change the second part) yields a webpage.
> [2a02:ed8:4444:0::8] yields "first part of its address is not valid".
> [2a02:0ed8:4444:0::8] (change the second part) yields a webpage.

Confirmed on Yosemite/Safari 8.

However the 2607:: address I tried already has 4 characters in each of 
the first 3 sections (ala, 2607:abcd:abcd::8) so this trick doesn't 
work. I also tried 2607:abcd:abcd:0:0:0:0:8 and various other 
zero-padded combinations that didn't work either.

Doug



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