How to connect to a website that has only IPv6 addresses without a domain name?

According to RFC2732, literal IPv6 addresses should be put inside square brackets in URLs, e.g. like this: http://[1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A]/index.html If you also need to specify a port other then 80 to access the server it has to be placed after the closing bracket: http://[1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A]:8888/index.html Of course, you have to have end-to-end IPv6 connectivity to that host. E.g. if the server is not inside your own local network, you need to have IPv6 connectivity, either via y…