<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 08/05/2010, at 10:59 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">One thing I noticed during my testing, is that I don't have a web<br>browser on my system(s) that allows me to surf directly to an IPv6<br>address. I tried all manner of quoting, but still, no go.<br><br>Firefox at least attempts to go to '2607' if my url string is<br>"<a href="http://2607:f118::b6">http://2607:f118::b6</a>", IE immediately dumps "page can not be displayed".<br><br>I even tried the v6 enabled lynx on my v6 only server, but it too fails<br>miserably.<br><br>Is there a web browser that knows what a v6 address is, when processing<br>it via the ``address bar''? AFAIC, this is a problem when it comes to<br>troubleshooting. Perhaps my software is out of date.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>The usual method for quoting is to enclose it in square brackets, eg:</div><div><a href="http://[2607:f118::b6]/">http://[2607:f118::b6]/</a></div><div><br></div><div>I'm yet to find a modern browser that this doesn't work with.</div><div><br></div><div>-Shaun</div></body></html>