Accessing non-port80 web server using IPv6

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Published on 2011-02-05T21:02:07Z Indexed on 2011/02/05 23:27 UTC
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In a normal IPv4 network, I can go into any browser such as Firefox and browse a server on a IPv4 address not hosted on port 80:

(add http:// - Super user stops "new" users from adding links)192.168.42.6:8080/

This accesses the server on Port 8080 on 192.168.42.6. However, if I try this with a IPv6 IP, I get no luck. This tries to access port 8080 on fe80::520:ff0f:ece0:1 :

http://[fe80::520:ff0f:ece0:1]:8080/

Firefox will automatically "fix" this URL to:

http://[www.fe80::520:ff0f:ece0:1.com]:8080/

which does not help me access it at all. So either I am doing something really wrong OR there's something really wrong with IPv6. Couldn't find anything that even remotely helped on the Internet. (And yes, there is a server running on the IPv6 in question)

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