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URL Standard-compatible IPv4 embedded IPv6 host parser

Category
Miscellaneous
Type
Chromium catches up
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 117)
Intent stage
None

Summary

The behavior of parsing IPv4 embedded IPv6 host parser will be updated to strictly follow the web URL standard: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-ipv6-parser The introduced restrictions on the IPv6 address are: * The embedded IPv4 address shall always consist of 4 parts. Addresses with less than 4 parts like http://[::1.2] will be no longer valid. The feature is a part of the URL interop 2023.

Standards & signals

Samples: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/4206417

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