Introduction This article is dedicated to a series of tricks utilizing the modern capabilities of IPv6 and the shortcomings of address parser implementations in standard libraries of popular programming languages. IPv6 Zone I think many people have an idea of what IPv6 and IPv4 addresses look like: 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 - IPv6 192.168.0.1 - IPv4 When including an IPv6 address in a URL, it needs to be enclosed in square brackets []: