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

[Skip Montanaro]

    David> Have you actually tested it, cus I made my own fix than was at
    David> least and additional 7 lines....

I don't have access to ipv6.  I used the ipaddr:port combination in the
RedHat bug report as a test input.  Here's the change to httplib.py.
Replace:

            i = host.find(':')

with

            i = host.rfind(':')

Like I said, it was a one-character fix.  rfind() looks from the back of the
host/port combination for the colon separating the host and port.  Since
port numbers can't contain colons, the first colon found from the back has
to be the colon separating the host-or-address from the port number.

Here's the change to the test case (Lib/test/test_httplib.py).  After the
for loop that checks for invalid ports, add this analogous for loop that
checks valid host/port combinations:

    for hp in ("[fe80::207:e9ff:fe9b]:8000", "www.python.org:80",
               "www.python.org"):
        try:
            h = httplib.HTTP(hp)
        except httplib.InvalidURL:
            print "InvalidURL raised erroneously"

The test case failed before applying the patch and succeeded after.
According to the principals of I test-driven development, I'm done until
another bug surfaces.  In short, I've done what I can to fix the obvious
problem.  Drilling down any deeper than that is impossible for me.  As I
indicated, I have no ipv6 access.

If you test it out and still find problems, please submit a bug report on
SF.  Please *don't* follow up to python-dev.  It's not the appropriate place
to discuss the ins and outs of specific patches.  I only did so because that
was the easiest way to tell the other developers that I'd applied a fix for
the problem.

back-to-my-paying-job-ly, y'rs,

Skip