Bug#306914: possible patch

[Nicholas Bamber]

I was seriously looking at this. I hit a further problem. Net::HTTP
parses the hostname:port combination which of course clashes with the
IPv6 syntax. However as that is a problem not specific to Net::HTTP but
rather is a general IPv6  issue, there is a convention to deal with
that. You can use [] around an IPv6 address to use it where you would
use a hostname. So it is still doable however I ran out if time to look
at it myself and there is a danger of moving way from how upstream will
eventually handle  it. Also these things are working their way through
the perl5 upstream so it may yet go up the priority list for the LWP
upstream.


On 18/06/11 13:04, Maximilian Gass wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 09:51:46PM +0000, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
>> Consulting with verious perl people it seems that using
>> IO::Socket::IP or IO::Socket::INET6 instead of IO::Socket::INET
>> inside Net::HTTP should work. I have not so far been able to
>> persuade upstream to try this largely because neither of those
>> modules have a good record on windows.
> 
> If they are problematic on Windows and upstream is unwilling to fix
> this, can't we patch it in?


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