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And it gets even more fun when browsers such as firefox implemented this, then decided no we won't do it and removed the feature -- now there's no way to access

And it gets even more fun when browsers such as firefox implemented this, then decided no we won't do it and removed the feature -- now there's no way to access your router web interface over link-local address... (rationale being that whatwg said no: https://github.com/whatwg/url/issues/392 https://github.com/whatwg/url/issues/392 ; firefox bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700999 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700999 ) The "solution" is to use a proxy such as https://github.com/twisteroidambassador/prettysocks/tree/ipv6-literal https://github.com/twisteroidambassador/prettysocks/tree/ipv... which incidentally encode the % as a `s` and handle special URLs like this http://fe80--1ff-fe23-4567-890as3.ipv6-literal.net http://fe80--1ff-fe23-4567-890as3.ipv6-literal.net for you through the socks dns resolution feature... I've never found anything else that works recently -_-

Dagger2 3mo ago
I very much didn't test it, but this patch might do the job on Firefox (provided there's no code in the UI doing extra validation on top): --- a/netwerk/base/nsURLHelper.cpp +++ b/netwerk/base/nsURLHelper.cpp @@ -928,3 +928,3 @@ bool net_IsValidIPv4Addr(const nsACString& aAddr) { bool net_IsValidIPv6Addr(const nsACString& aAddr) { - return mozilla::net::rust_net_is_valid_ipv6_addr(&aAddr); + return true; } Or if you actually wanted to do some validation, pass the address to getaddrinfo(): bool net_IsValidIPv6Addr(const nsACString& aAddr) { struct addrinfo *res, hints = {.ai_flags = AI_NUMERICHOST}; int err = getaddrinfo(aAddr.get(), nullptr, &hints, &res); if (err) return false; bool isValid = res[0].ai_family != AF_INET; freeaddrinfo(res); return isValid; } This way it's valid if your OS considers it a valid address.
zamadatix 3mo ago
Could you do the same trick just putting a temporary entry in the hosts file?
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Dagger2 3mo ago

I very much didn't test it, but this patch might do the job on Firefox (provided there's no code in the UI doing extra validation on top): --- a/netwerk/base/nsURLHelper.cpp +++ b/netwerk/base/nsURLHelper.cpp @@ -928,3 +928,3 @@ bool net_IsValidIPv4Addr(const nsACString& aAddr) { bool net_IsValidIPv6Addr(const nsACString& aAddr) { - return mozilla::net::rust_net_is_valid_ipv6_addr(&aAddr); + return true; } Or if you actually wanted to do some validation, pass the address to getaddrinfo(): bool net_IsValidIPv6Addr(const nsACString& aAddr) { struct addrinfo *res, hints = {.ai_flags = AI_NUMERICHOST}; int err = getaddrinfo(aAddr.get(), nullptr, &hints, &res); if (err) return false; bool isValid = res[0].ai_family != AF_INET; freeaddrinfo(res); return isValid; } This way it's valid if your OS considers it a valid address.

zamadatix 3mo ago

Could you do the same trick just putting a temporary entry in the hosts file?

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