Re: Finder and IPv6 URLs?
Re: Finder and IPv6 URLs?
- Subject: Re: Finder and IPv6 URLs?
- From: Andre-John Mas <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:37:57 -0400
On 31-Oct-07, at 12:27 , George Colley wrote:
On Oct 31, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Andre-John Mas wrote:
On 31-Oct-07, at 11:45 , Quinn wrote:
At 11:09 -0400 31/10/07, Andre-John Mas wrote:
What is the current status with regards to the Finder's 'connect
to server' option and IPv6.
At 8:23 -0700 31/10/07, George Colley wrote:
Sad to say Leopard/Tiger SMB currently do not support IPv6.
I should note that, in general, there's nothing to stop a VFS plug-
in from supporting IPv6 in Connect to Server. AFP does support
IPv6 and you can enter IPv6 addresses into Connect to Server, even
on 10.4.x.
AFP certainly seems to work with a the IPv6 numerical address. Typing
afp://[::1]
results in an alert saying that you can't connect to the local
machine. On the other hand it is worth noting that the 'connecting
to server' window incorrectly displays the URL as afp://::1
From the Finder AFP/SMB do not allow you to connect to the local
machine. This is independent of IPv6.
The comment wasn't so much that you can't connect to the local
machine, which I can understand, but a confirmation that AFP seems to
know about IPv6 in the Finder. The second part is the mangling of the
URL with IPv6 numerical address in the 'connecting to server' window.
RFC 2732 states that:
"It defines a syntax for IPv6 addresses and allows the use of "[" and
"]" within a URI explicitly for this reserved purpose."
So displaying afp://[::1] as afp://::1 is incorrect.
Andre
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