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Link-local ipv6 addresses are unusable on non-Linux-like platforms #3672
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Apologies beforehand -- I haven't included a code sample because the top-level issue is a crate up in my dependency tree (so I didn't have one handy at the time or writing.)
(That crate, reqwest, is bound to hyper's API here.)
FWIW One way to do this on non-Linux platforms is with the IP_BOUND_IF (and v6 variant) with whatever the index, from if_nametoindex, happens to be. (Scope ids seem to be practically the same thing as interface indices in this context.)
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All
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All platforms except Linux-like ones; Android, Linux, and Fuschia.
Description
IPv6 requires scope ids. These are closely related to interfaces. Mostly synonymous.
The API for setting the interface for a connection,
set_interfaceis unavailable on some platforms.This makes link-local ipv6 addresses almost unusable on those platforms.