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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/http/client.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/http/client.py | 7 |
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: |