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IPv6 literals in URLs not recognized #239225 03/10/12 07:29 PM
Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 10 D D4ni OP Pikka bird
OP D4ni Pikka bird D Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 10	mIRC does not recognize URLs with literal IPv6 addresses like http://[2a00:1450:4016:800::1012]/ anymore. This works on 7.19, but doesn't in 7.25 and 7.26 - I guess 7.23 broke it.

Re: IPv6 literals in URLs not recognized D4ni #239237 04/10/12 07:16 AM
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 57 W Wiz126 Babel fish
Wiz126 Babel fish W Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 57	I can confirm this behavior. However, it has nothing to do with IPv6. mIRC is actually stopping at the [. For example double clicking "http://www.example.com/test[foobar]" (which is a perfectly fine URL (just unencoded)) opens "http://www.example.com/test". [] should normally be encoded. This is related to https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/238811/mIRC_can_t_handle_URLs_properl IPv6 might need a special exception. It's well defined enough to not interfere with the current punctuation delimiters. Last edited by Wiz126; 04/10/12 07:29 AM.

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