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How do I browse to an IPv6 IP?

Because of the ":" delimiter, that has been used in the HTTP URI scheme for quite a while, we run in to a slight problem browsing to IPv6 IP's (as they are themselves seperated by ":" characters.) Because of this we must use a new IP-literal for IPv6 IP addresses within a URI (of any sort.)

STD66 (RFC3986 - 3.2.2) provides the IP-literal of:
IP-literal = "[" ( IPv6address / IPvFuture ) "]"

RFC2732 (obsoleted by STD66/RFC3986) provides examples with a definition for HTTP URL's, but is obsolete and only covers the HTTP protocol (URL as opposed to URI).

2. Literal IPv6 Address Format in URL's Syntax

   To use a literal IPv6 address in a URL, the literal address should be
   enclosed in "[" and "]" characters.  For example the following
   literal IPv6 addresses:

      FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:3210
      1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:4171
      3ffe:2a00:100:7031::1
      1080::8:800:200C:417A
      ::192.9.5.5
      ::FFFF:129.144.52.38
      2010:836B:4179::836B:4179

   would be represented as in the following example URLs:

      http://[FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:3210]:80/index.html
      http://[1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A]/index.html
      http://[3ffe:2a00:100:7031::1]
      http://[1080::8:800:200C:417A]/foo
      http://[::192.9.5.5]/ipng
      http://[::FFFF:129.144.52.38]:80/index.html
      http://[2010:836B:4179::836B:4179]

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