On 11/08/2019 23.24, James Knott wrote:
On 2019-08-11 05:03 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I did not say broken, just useless because browsers do not support it. CUPS also I understand doesn't.
You doubted that this lack of support has any importance, and I tried without success to explain it. Just read the Bugzilla instead of me, they say why they need this support, why they use Firefox 6. Some commented on keeping a separate install of FF 6 just for this purpose.
That's what I tried to say in most of this thread.
You have said it's useless because browsers don't support it. That was never the intent of it, though it may have been possible at one point. The purpose of the link local addresses is for stuff like router advertisements, gateways, etc., not browsers. It's so that networks can get off the ground, without any configuration. You get IPv6 from your ISP, then your router announces the network prefix and provides it's link local address for the gateway and more. It's all about auto configuration, not browsers.
Well, for many people it has another purpose that doesn't work. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)