Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx 2.8.7 and numeric IPv6 adddresses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andre-John Mas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just installed lynx 2.8.7dev.7 on my Mac, specifying the IPv6
> option for the configuration:
>
>  ./configure --enable-ipv6 --prefix=/usr/local/lynx
>
> Everything builds and installs. I am able to connect to:
>
>  lynx "http://127.0.0.1/";
>
> But if I specify the valid IPv6 URL, which works with Safari:
>
>  lynx "http://[::1]/";
>
> I get the error:
>
>  Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
>
>  lynx: Can't access startfile http://[/
>
> This would like a URL parsing issue. Can anyone confirm the problem?

lynx supports IPv6 internally - should be able to connect to a host using 
DNS or a properly constructed hosts file, but doesn't implement the 
literals.

(This is known - patches welcome ;-)

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