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		Dagger2 on Jan 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6 URLs use : to separate the IP and port. There needs to be some way to disambiguate that from the colons in the address.

tristan957 on Jan 24, 2024 [–]

But if a URL has more than one colon, can't you assume is an IPv6 address?

Dagger2 on Jan 24, 2024 | [–]

You can't tell if there's a port or not, e.g. http://2001:db8::1:8080/. Is that 2001:db8::1 or 2001:db8::1:8080?

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