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authorSenthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com>2010-11-13 12:27:49 (GMT)
committerSenthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com>2010-11-13 12:27:49 (GMT)
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Fix Issue5111 - Wrap the Ipv6 host with [] in the Host header
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/http')
-rw-r--r--Lib/http/client.py7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
index 6c38c4a..0059b51 100644
--- a/Lib/http/client.py
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -874,6 +874,13 @@ class HTTPConnection:
host_enc = self.host.encode("ascii")
except UnicodeEncodeError:
host_enc = self.host.encode("idna")
+
+ # As per RFC 273, IPv6 address should be wrapped with []
+ # when used as Host header
+
+ if self.host.find(':') >= 0:
+ host_enc = b'[' + host_enc + b']'
+
if self.port == self.default_port:
self.putheader('Host', host_enc)
else: