Bug#587330: [lynx-cur] More experimentation...

I did some further testing. It looks like lynx will work with IPv6 gopher. (Finding a server was pretty hard... Its called bucktooth if anyone is interested.) It looks like this might be a bug merely in HTFinger.c It seems that in the case of finger:// addresses, anything lynx deems to be the po

Bug#587330: [lynx-cur] lynx-cur doesn’t handle IPv6 addresses correctly in the finger protocol (and possibly others).

Package: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.8dev.4-1 Severity: normal When an IPv6 address is given to lynx in the finger protocol, lynx will misinterpret the address. Example: lynx finger://[::1] outputs: Alert!: Invalid port number - will only use port 79! While: lynx finger://ip6-localhost will give the