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r86450 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-11-13 20:27:49 +0800 (Sat, 13 Nov 2010) | 3 lines
Fix Issue5111 - Wrap the Ipv6 host with [] in the Host header
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diff --git a/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
index f273b03..bd092c2 100644
--- a/Lib/http/client.py
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -873,6 +873,13 @@
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: