[ds6] firefox and ipv6

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:45:17PM +0100, Peter Bieringer wrote:

> <lionel at mamane.lu> wrote:
>>On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:05:06PM +0100, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:

>>> does anyone of you know if firefox support ipv6?

>> The only missing feature I know about is support of the
>> "%device_name" syntax to specify link-local addresses. (See
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=178650.)

> Hmm, sure here discussions will raise up because I'm unsure whether
> link-local addresses should be used in user interfaces in
> application layer (exceptions: ping6 et. al. and perhaps ssh).

Running a proxy on a link-local address is a very easy way to ensure
that no one from the "outside" can use it. It makes sense then that
one can specify a link-local address as proxy in Mozilla.

-- 
Lionel
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