Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 14627 invoked by uid 6000); 16 Jun 1999 20:48:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 14481 invoked from network); 16 Jun 1999 20:48:06 -0000 Received: from david.siemens.de (192.35.17.14) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 16 Jun 1999 20:48:06 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: martin.kraemer@mch.sni.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from mail2.siemens.de (mail2.siemens.de [139.25.208.14]) by david.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA08759 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:48:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from deejai.mch.sni.de (deejai.mch.sni.de [139.25.105.242]) by mail2.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA09487 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:48:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from martin@localhost) by deejai.mch.sni.de (8.8.7/8.8.7(UNIX)) id WAA05514 for new-httpd@apache.org; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:48:02 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19990616224801.B5404@deejai.mch.sni.de> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:48:01 +0200 From: Martin Kraemer To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: VirtualHost directive and IPv6 References: <8645.929430862@coconut.itojun.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <8645.929430862@coconut.itojun.org>; from itojun@iijlab.net on Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 04:14:22PM +0900 X-Operating-System: SINIX-D 5.41 C1001 X-Organization: Siemens AG (Muenchen, W.Germany) X-Phone: +49-89-636-46021 X-Disclaimer: THE COMMENTS CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE WRITER AND ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF SIEMENS AG X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 04:14:22PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote: > It takes multiple "host" or "host:port" as argument. However, as > IPv6 address will be written as colon-separated hexadecimals, > we cannot use "host:port" for IPv6 addresses (it is ambiguous). That's exactly what I expected since I first heard that IPv6 uses colons between its hex values. All applications which separate IP addresses from other information by ':'s suffer from this problem, not just apache. I wonder how the IPv6 people solved the ambiguity for the rest of the IPv4 applications which "mis-" use the ':' ?!?! For apache, I'd accept '@' or '/' or whatever, but the change should be (for 1.3.7) only used for IPv6 addresses, to keep the compatibility for the IPv4 customers. Martin -- | Siemens Information and Phone: +49-89-636-46021 | Communication Products FAX: +49-89-636-47816 | 81730 Munich, Germany