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Coping with IP Address Literals in HTTP URIs with IPv6/IPv4 Translators
draft-wing-behave-http-ip-address-literals-02

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Dan Wing
Last updated 2010-03-06
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Abstract

A small percentage of HTTP URIs contain an IPv4 address literal as the hostname which is not accessible to IPv6-only HTTP clients using an IPv6/IPv4 translator and DNS64. This document proposes a workaround for this problem using an HTTP proxy to handle that traffic.

Authors

Dan Wing

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