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Accessing non-port80 web server using IPv6

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Mar 15, 202620948 views
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Problem

In a normal IPv4 network, I can go into any browser such as Firefox and browse a server on a IPv4 address not hosted on port 80: This accesses the server on port 8080 on . However, if I try this with a IPv6 IP, I get no luck. This tries to access port 8080 on : Firefox will automatically "fix" this…

Error Output

http://192.168.42.6:8080/

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Fix for: Accessing non-port80 web server using IPv6

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First of all: I am no IPv6 expert. If you cannot add a DNS name (or want to ensure IPv6 is used1), then why not use the actual address, rather than the link-local one? On a Mac with OS X, and on Windows XP Home edition, this (with an actual IPv6 add…

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