Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-sip-ipv6-abnf-fix (Essential correction for IPv6 ABNF and URI comparison in RFC3261) to Proposed Standard

Adam Roach wrote:

> For what it's worth, typing "http://www.ietf.org:080/" into Firefox,
> Safari, and MSIE all takes me to the IETF's web page (interpreting "080"
> as 80, not 64). So, at least for HTTP URLs, there's a de facto
> interpretation of leading zeros in a port as padding, not an indication
> of octal.

But that still implies a binary comparison instead of a textual one,
unless the textual comparison is going to understand the zero-padding
and remove it first.

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