[Python-Dev] httplib is not v6 compatible, is this going to be fixed?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Phillip> Here's the test case that's missing, then:
> 
>     Phillip>      "[fe80::207:e9ff:fe9b]"
> 
> Whoops.  Fixed.

The code was still incorrect. The square brackets don't belong
to the host name - they are part of the URL syntax. Before passing
them to the socket module, they need to be stripped off. I have now
changed httplib to do that right when parsing host:port.

Regards,
Martin