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

[Andre-John Mas]

On 7-Jan-08, at 20:18 , Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andre-John Mas wrote:
>
> > > 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 ;-)
> >
> > Just to give me a head start, which file is responsible for the  
> > parsing?
>
> The largest chunk is in
>
>         WWW/Library/Implementation/HTParse.c
>
> though there'll be scattered fixes - the square brackets for  
> instance could collide with the VMS pathname parsing (I'm not sure -  
> just general
> advice).  But HTParse.c is the starting point.

Thanks I'll take a look at that. A few questions:
 - Are there any VMS implementations that support IPv6?
 - Are there any good references describing the syntax of VMS path?

Andre