IPv6 Bug du Jour: GMime and IPv6 addresses
Severity: Normal
Today's bug - GMime doesn't parse URLs with literal IPv6 addresses. This has been reported to them as bug 515088.
GMime is a popular library for handling MIME. Penn State's WebMail system uses it. It has a very useful module that converts plaintext email containing URLs into HTML. WebMail uses this capability. Unfortunately, it doesn't support URLs with IPv6 addresses, such as http://[2610:8:6800:1::7]/. This is a valid URL, per RFC 2732.
From what I hear, the GMime developers are very responsive to bug reports. I look forward to this being fixed. It'll be one small step to making WebMail IPv6-capable. :)
Today's bug - GMime doesn't parse URLs with literal IPv6 addresses. This has been reported to them as bug 515088.
GMime is a popular library for handling MIME. Penn State's WebMail system uses it. It has a very useful module that converts plaintext email containing URLs into HTML. WebMail uses this capability. Unfortunately, it doesn't support URLs with IPv6 addresses, such as http://[2610:8:6800:1::7]/. This is a valid URL, per RFC 2732.
From what I hear, the GMime developers are very responsive to bug reports. I look forward to this being fixed. It'll be one small step to making WebMail IPv6-capable. :)
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