[tech] IPv6 addresses in URLs

[almaember]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:38:08 -0600
Alex // nytpu <alex at nytpu.com> wrote:

> You could say "then it should just default to some specific domain,"
> but then that's a server issue and the client can't do anything about
> it since it doesn't know what the "default" domain is.  Also servers
> are allowed to drop requests that don't use SNI, so they're under no
> obligation to support using a raw IP even though I personally do
> think it'd be a nice feature to have.

Please excuse my lack of knowledge about SNI, but can't clients send
the IP address as a host too?

If they can, then the server operator could simply configure what they
want to send for plain IP addresses, like it's done already with
subdomains?

~almaember