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

[Andre-John Mas]

On 7-Jan-08, at 18:04 , Thomas Dickey wrote:

> 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 ;-)

Just to give me a head start, which file is responsible for the parsing?

Andre