Re: [iPAQ] Web browsers...

Steven Ayer wrote:

> 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
>
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Yeah, I think so.

--Chris

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