Bracket IPv6 Hostnames in URIs
Chris Rapier
rapier at psc.edu
Sat Oct 10 03:33:03 AEDT 2026
Good to know. Thank you for letting me know.
Chris
On 10/8/26 22:19, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> On 10/8/26 16:03, Chris Rapier wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Should bracketed IPv6 hostnames work in URIs? I'm running into an issue
>> using them and I don't know if it's something with me or if this is a
>> known issue.
>>
>> sftp -6 'sftp://localhost6'
>>
>> works
>>
>> sftp -6 'sftp://[::1]'
>>
>> fails.
>>
>> Am I building the command incorrectly?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chris
>
> It's a known bug, for which I submitted a patch a while back.
> Damien Miller wrote a new patch, which I reviewed, but I don't think
> it has been applied yet.
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