Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

[Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

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>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Manning <bmanning at isi.edu> writes:
    Bill> 	Are the apps for which IPv6 is enabled that -can not-
    Bill> 	use address literals?  If so, then Steve is wrong and 

  yes.
  Both IPv4 and IPv6 web browsers behave differently if you do,
for instance:
    http://192.139.46.2/
vs  http://www.sandelman.ca/

  A different Host: header is sent, and therefore one gets a different 
(virtual) web site. Of course, we have no need of this in IPv6, since
2^64 web sites per LAN is plenty, but the protocol still exists to do it.
  Can we change this in IPv6? Maybe.

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