Bug#306914: possible patch

2011-06-18 Thread Maximilian Gass
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 09:51:46PM +, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > Consulting with verious perl people it seems that using > IO::Socket::IP or IO::Socket::INET6 instead of IO::Socket::INET > inside Net::HTTP should work. I have not so far been able to > persuade upstream to try this largely because

Bug#306914: possible patch

2011-06-18 Thread Nicholas Bamber
I was seriously looking at this. I hit a further problem. Net::HTTP parses the hostname:port combination which of course clashes with the IPv6 syntax. However as that is a problem not specific to Net::HTTP but rather is a general IPv6 issue, there is a convention to deal with that. You can use []

Bug#306914: possible patch

2011-03-17 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Consulting with verious perl people it seems that using IO::Socket::IP or IO::Socket::INET6 instead of IO::Socket::INET inside Net::HTTP should work. I have not so far been able to persuade upstream to try this largely because neither of those modules have a good record on windows. -- To UNS