Fix Issue5111 - Wrap the Ipv6 host with [] in the Host header

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Senthil Kumaran 2010-11-13 12:27:49 +00:00
parent 5ccafbadda
commit 74ebd9e6a3
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@ -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: