Re: [Fwd: Re: About IPv6 private address]

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>]

That is a Firefox configuration issue, I think. I don't see that
problem (with Firefix 2.0.0.7, or with IE).

Is it possible that your browser is going to a proxy?

   Brian

On 2008-02-05 13:24, blue wrote:
> Hi,
> But after typing a link-local address, Firefox' message shows:
> 
>    Unable to find "www.fe80::213:49ff:fe04:507%8.com"
> 
> It translated typed "http://[fe80::213:49ff:fe04:507%8]"; to
> "http://[www.fe80::213:49ff:fe04:507%8.com]/";.
> 
> However, a global unique IPv6 address worked!
> 
> I thought it proved that Firefox does not support link-local address.
> 
> Thanks.
> BR,
> Yi-Wen
> 
> Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
>>>> Yes, users need to configure our device via http, and if there's no
>>>> well-known IPv6 address, how do users know which address to connect to?
>>>> I have thought about a pre-configured link-local address; however,
>>>> browsers such as Firefox does not support link-local address. Any
>>>> suggestions?
>>>>     
>>
>> How come Firefox (or any other browser) knows how to *not* support
>> link-local addresses? As far as I can tell, it does support them.
>> Just don't forget the [ ] brackets.
>>
>> When I tell Firefox to connect to http://[fe80::1]/ it gives me
>> an "unable to connect" message, but that's exactly what I'd expect.
>> When I tell Firefox to connect to http://[fe80::21a:a0ff:fe4a:d680%5]/
>> (my own link-local address) it gives me a "server not found" message,
>> which is also exactly what I'd expect, since I'm not listening on
>> port 80.
>>
>>    Brian
>>
>>  
>>
> 
>