On Tuesday 19 December 2000 01:39, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Monday 18 December 2000 20:31, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> > > > > 2) modify KURL to accept the raw IPv6 addresses in URL (RFC 2732)
> >
> > This is almost done since KURL is a generic parser.  It needs a few
> > modifications to adhere to the additional minor changes imposed by this
> > spec.  I am planning to re-write the parser for 2.2 or whatever the later
> > release is for the 2.x series so I will make sure that KURL is capable of
> > understanding IPv6...
>
> I don't like the idea of rewriting KURL. It has been rewritten before and
> it took 2 years to get all the details right again. I don't think there is
> anything fundamentally wrong with the current KURL class. Let's just keep
> it and fix whatever problems we encounter in the current code.

Well I was only thinking about re-writing the parser and only the parser as
a comparison...

> I had a look at RFC2732 btw, do they really think anyone in his right mind
> is going to type in a IPv6 address? I mean, people are hardly able to type
> http:// in front of an URL!

My sentiments exactly :) Perhaps they actually assumed that most people will not
be bothering with the numerical based URL representations and just stick to easy
domain based representations ?

Regards,
Dawit A.