Bug#614948: Missing support for IPv6 host literals

[Ben Hutchings]

Package: libwww-perl
Version: 5.837-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ipv6

The format of IPv6 host literals in URLs is specified in RFC 2732.

$ ping6 2001:470:1f08:1539::4
PING 2001:470:1f08:1539::4(2001:470:1f08:1539::4) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:470:1f08:1539::4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=7.94 ms
^C
--- 2001:470:1f08:1539::4 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 7.945/7.945/7.945/0.000 ms
$ HEAD http://[2001:470:1f08:1539::4]:80/
500 Can't connect to 2001:470:1f08:1539::4:80 (Bad hostname '2001:470:1f08:1539::4')
Content-Type: text/plain
Client-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:52:41 GMT
Client-Warning: Internal response

Ben.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers oldstable-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libwww-perl depends on:
ii  libhtml-parser-perl           3.68-1     collection of modules that parse H
ii  libhtml-tagset-perl           3.20-2     Data tables pertaining to HTML
ii  libhtml-tree-perl             4.1-1      Perl module to represent and creat
ii  liburi-perl                   1.58-1     module to manipulate and access UR
ii  netbase                       4.45       Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl                          5.10.1-17  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages libwww-perl recommends:
pn  libhtml-format-perl           <none>     (no description available)
ii  libio-compress-perl           2.024-1    bundle of IO::Compress modules
ii  libmailtools-perl             2.06-1     Manipulate email in perl programs
ii  perl [libio-compress-perl]    5.10.1-17  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages libwww-perl suggests:
ii  libcrypt-ssleay-perl          0.57-2     Support for https protocol in LWP
ii  libio-socket-ssl-perl         1.38-1     Perl module implementing object or

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