Charles Stephens added the comment:
Yes, I'm working on patching urllib3 to preprocess the host argument to
HTTPConnection. However, it makes sense to strip square brackets regardless.
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Charles Stephens added the comment:
Not when passing it to getaddrinfo().
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Charles Stephens added the comment:
Our internal use case is happening through requests via urllib3 for parsing.
Essentially requests is taking the URL, passing it to urllib3 for parsing.
urllib3 is returning a namedtuple of type Url which includes a host and port
property which is being fed
Charles Stephens added the comment:
Example with patch applied:
Python 2.7.6 (default, Oct 26 2016, 20:33:50)
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import httplib
>>> con1 = h
Charles Stephens added the comment:
I misapplied the term 'regression'. My intent was to describe how original
author's change revision 433606e9546c was refactored to make it perform
incorrectly.
Without the scope specifier, the outcome is the same when HTTPConnection is
inst
Changes by Charles Stephens :
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title: httplib/http.client HTTPConnection._get_hostport() regression ->
httplib/http.client HTTPConnection._set_hostport() regression
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Charles Stephens added the comment:
Er, that is HTTPConnection._set_hostport() not _get_hostport()
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New submission from Charles Stephens:
Back through the mists of time, there was a change to strip square brackets
IPv6 address host literals in HTTPConnection._get_hostport():
https://hg.python.org/cpython/diff/433606e9546c/Lib/httplib.py
However, the code mixed tabs and spaces and was
