Re: [iPAQ] Web browsers...

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Christopher Blizzard wrote:

> Steven Ayer wrote:
>
>
> >
> > we're very interested in everyone's progress toward a decent browser for
> > the ipaq. what would be *really* valuable to us right now is an
> > ipv6-compatible browser; would you mind tossing in those bits as long as
> > you're at it? =:^0
> >
>
> Mozilla should work with IPv6. It's supported from NSPR on up. If you
> find bugs that prevent it from working please file bugs.
>
> --Chris

yes, but it doesn't seem to. i downloaded 0.8 from mozilla.org just now
to run a quick test.

let me preface this by noting that we have some of the basic tcp ipv6
tools going satisfactorily, so you can, say do telnet ayerlaptop, watch
it map to fec0::1234, and off you go. but if you feed ayerlaptop to
mozilla, you get a console message "Error loading URL
http://ayerlaptop/: 804b000d."

the interface pops up a dialogue that alerts you to the fact that the
connection was refused by keyword.netscape.com, meaning mozilla
thinks the user is seeking a definition for something that definitely must
not be a url.

the console message probably points to the real trouble, which is the fact
that an ipv6 address contains semi-colons, reserved and therefore
foreign/mis-translated in the url parsing (thanks jim gettys for pointing
this out to me just this morning).

so, under the circumstances, is this even a bug?

-steve
Received on Wed Mar 14 10:13:42 2001