At Mon, 9 Jun 2014 00:57:19 +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote: > > [1 <text/plain; US-ASCII (quoted-printable)>] > On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 20:43:40 +0200 > Tim Schumacher <t...@datenknoten.me> wrote: > > > I'm setting up some vm foo and wanted to use approx to cache downloads. > > > > I put the following in my sources.lst on the client: > > > > deb http://[fe80::fc54:ff:fe1a:1922%eth0]:9999/debian/packages/ jessie main > > contrib non-free > > > > I think the %eth0 is required to specify the device. > > Can you name any other client software which supports this in URLs? > > Wget, curl, browsers, ftp clients, media players - none do. > > For that reason *no one* uses link-local addresses for HTTP. > > Set yourself up some ULA range[1], and better yet, assing some DNS names so > you > don't have to use bare IPs in URLs (which too, can be a complicated issue with > curl). > > If you still want link-locals to work, in case of approx you likely need to > complain to curl, since that's what it uses under-the-hood for HTTP.
This has nothing to do with curl, as approx uses ocamlnet[1] to provide its httpd stuff, if I read the source[2] right. And by the curl supports ipv6 link local addresses[3]. There seems to be a somewhat related ticket[4], but I think the %eth0 is throwing the ocamlnet lib off the track. And your argument that no one uses link local addresses is invalid, as I use them all the time, because they are predictable and so can be used very easy for autoconfiguring stuff. And this is clearly a bug, which should be solved and not worked arround somehow. greetings Tim [1] http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/ocamlnet.html [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/approx.git;a=blob;f=myocamlbuild.ml;h=f646941512cb1553675bbd23b2f015f842766419;hb=HEAD [3] http://pastebin.geany.org/gfZDR/ [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610597
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