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Description of problem:
IPv6 addresses in URIs have to be written like

   http://[fe80::207:e9ff:fe9b]:8000

but passing such a string to the httplib functions produces errors like

  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 969, in __init__
    self._setup(self._connection_class(host, port, strict))
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 491, in __init__
    self._set_hostport(host, port)
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 502, in _set_hostport
    raise InvalidURL("nonnumeric port: '%s'" % host[i+1:])
httplib.InvalidURL: nonnumeric port: ':207:e9ff:fe9b]:8000'


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start python
2.run the script
import xmlrpclib
server = xmlrpclib.Server("http://fe80::207:e9ff:fe9b:8000")
server.echo("test")

It's not necessary to have a server running, you'll not get as far as using it.
    

Actual Results:  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 821, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 975, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 833, in request
    h = self.make_connection(host)
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 862, in make_connection
    return httplib.HTTP(host)
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 969, in __init__
    self._setup(self._connection_class(host, port, strict))
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 491, in __init__
    self._set_hostport(host, port)
  File "//usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 502, in _set_hostport
    raise InvalidURL("nonnumeric port: '%s'" % host[i+1:])
httplib.InvalidURL: nonnumeric port: ':207:e9ff:fe9b]:8000'


Expected Results:  connection to xmlrpc server

Additional info:

See RFC 2732 for info on IPv6 URIs.