For developing a statically generated website on my laptop running Debian, I use weborf running on IPv6 localhost, port 8080: weborf -i ::1 -p 8080 -b ..
I can connect to without issues with Conkeror as well as Iceweasel (Debian's unbranded Firefox, release 35.0).
But with Chromium (the free base of the non-free Google Chrome browser) version 39 as currently shipped with Debian Unstable, I only get the following error message:
This webpage is not available
The server at [::1] can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Chromium from accessing the network.
Error code: DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
Why does Chromium try to resolve anything in that URL if it only contains an IP address and no host names at all?
Interesting also StackExchange claims that "Links cannot contain '[::1]'" which is clearly wrong. But it even doesn't allow me to leave that URL in there unquoted. :-(
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I'm having same issue with Chrome 39 on OS X.
It seems like launching Chrome with --enable-ipv6 helps.
