alt Hacker News> And with the right scope it looks like this:
[fe80::4%eth0]:80
About here my I felt my heart start to beat really fast and I started to hyperventilate.
I'll just accept that this is as much of a nightmare as it seems.
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sundbry • today at 12:35 AM
It's not hard, just don't use those addresses in your application.
Link-local ipv6 addresses are not designed for the use case of serving web applications.
I wonder why IPv6 didn't catch on! It's just unergonomic and ugly!
At work, I have a rare case of a useful application of IPv6: setting IPv4 addresses. We have multiple embedded devices in one product which all got the same default IPv4. But their serials map to their MACs which map to their link-local IPv6.
So workers scan the serial and I connect to all devices at once via their IPv6 address. Then, I set their individual IPv4 address and that's all I do via IPv6.