IPv6 address on Safari 8

[Jeroen Massar]

On 2014-10-27 10:22, Antonio Prado wrote:
> On 10/27/14 10:03 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>> Works here on Yosemite/OSX:
>> 8<-------------------------------------
>>                 <p class="error-message">Safari can’t open the page
>> “https://[2a02:ed8:4444::8]” because the server where this page is
>> located isn’t responding.</p>
>> ------------------------------------->8
> 
> hi,
> 
> I see an extra s there, retry as http

Force of habit.

Indeed, seems that that with http://... it fails.
It does not even bother to do any network actions.

Very silly that it does work for https://. Wonder what kind of bug is
causing that.

Interesting. You'll have to file a RADAR bug for that one.

>> The bigger question though is why folks need RAW addresses; this magical
>> DNS thing is amazing, try it.
> 
> yeah, what uneducated users, huh?

They are using IPv6 thus not that uneducated ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen