The upstream bug report (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700999) was closed as RESOLVED WONTFIX because they want to follow the proposal for URLs by WhatWG which doesn’t mention link-local IPv6 address specifiers.
** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #700999 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700999 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1775926 Title: Firefox cannot handle IPv6 addresses well Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Firefox 60.0.1 (64-bit), Ubuntu 16.04.4 amd64 Link addresses for IPv6 are tricky. IPv6 address has to be extended with network interface (zone id), to signal OS what network interface to use. When I try to connect with Firefox to following URL http://[fe80::87f4:81fa:b481:d781]/test.html it is confused. It even doesn't report an error that it cannot do that. When I enter URL with zone information, Firefox returns "search" results, in means, it doesn't understand this syntax of IPv6 address... http://[fe80::87f4:81fa:b481:d781%enp4s0]/test.html Here is RFC describing zones, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4007 Demo with CURL, that can handle such URLs without any problem: user@test:~$ curl http://[fe80::87f4:81fa:b481:d781]/test.html curl: (7) Couldn't connect to server user@test:~$ curl http://[fe80::87f4:81fa:b481:d781%enp4s0]/test.html <html><body>TEST</body></html> user@test:~$ curl http://[fe80::87f4:81fa:b481:d781%2]/test.html <html><body>TEST</body></html> user@test:~$ curl http://[::1]/test.html <html><body>TEST</body></html> user@test:~$ curl http://[::1%lo]/test.html <html><body>TEST</body></html> To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1775926/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
