On Fri, 11 Nov 2016, Alex Bligh wrote:

>> I didn't add "::1" support because that was never mentioned in any spec as
>> far as I know, and in the 127.0.0.1 case it isn't using the network anyway,
>> it just an alternate way of saying localhost.
>
> I believe that may not be true, for instance in a host configured with an
> IPv6 networking stack and not an IPv4 networking stack, or some non-IP
> networking stack. I suspect such machines are fantastically rare ...

My point is just that in a file:// URL, the given name is not used for any
networking. "localhost" will not be translated into an IP address and
127.0.0.1 will be treated just as "localhost".

I don't think anyone ever started the (bad) habit of using ::1 in file:// URLs
so adding that as another alias seems unnecessary to me.

file://localhost/ and file://127.0.0.1/ will both work equally fine - even on
IPv6-only hosts!

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