Hi, I'm back with more questions on the URL spec after poking at it a
bit more for various purposes.
One thing I've noticed is that the specification currently aggressively
fails IPv6 address matching, so, e.g., new URL("http://[::1::]";) would
fail. (Although it allows http://[1:2:3:4:5:6::8]/ to go through whereas
RFC 5952 advises that ":: MUST NOT be used to shorten just one 16-bit 0
field.") However, it doesn't apply this same logic to IPv4: new
URL("http://192/";) is parsed as a perfectly valid URL. Is this intentional?
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Joshua Cranmer
Source code archæologist
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
