Daniel Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > >> > The so called "scope" in IPv6 is emeddeded in the address, so you can't use >> > IPv6 addresses without getting the scope too. >> >> Are you sure? Here is what itojun said in >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> due to the IPv6 address architecture (scoped), 16 bytes does not >> identify a node. we need 4 byte more information to identify the >> outgoing scope zone. >> >> Am I misunderstanding him that Wget needs to keep 20 bytes of information >> to successfully connect? > > Well, if itojun said it then that's so. I have the greatest respect > for his IPv6 abilities.
That may be so, but I'm not entirely convinced that it is really important that Wget care about scopes in this context. I'm still discussing it with Thomas. For example, the gethostbyname2 and getipnodebyname calls don't return the scope at all. Does it mean that all applications that use them are broken? Somehow I doubt it. (And yes, I know that both seem to be obsolete, but I still find it strange that such a feature of such importance would be missing.) If someone here understands IPv6 enough to explain this, I'd be grateful to hear the clarification.
