From 03ca795bd6c163eaed116a129ec4d1a53833700c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco Casaroli <marco.casaroli@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 17:11:59 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix ipv6 http socket host handling as in RFC2732

---
 core/net/http-socket/http-socket.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/net/http-socket/http-socket.c b/core/net/http-socket/http-socket.c
index 758c1473e..1e5ebbb27 100644
--- a/core/net/http-socket/http-socket.c
+++ b/core/net/http-socket/http-socket.c
@@ -412,7 +412,15 @@ event(struct tcp_socket *tcps, void *ptr,
       tcp_socket_send_str(tcps, " HTTP/1.1\r\n");
       tcp_socket_send_str(tcps, "Connection: close\r\n");
       tcp_socket_send_str(tcps, "Host: ");
+      /* If we have IPv6 host, add the '[' and the ']' characters
+         to the host. As in rfc2732. */
+      if (strchr(host, ':')) {
+        tcp_socket_send_str(tcps, "[");
+      }
       tcp_socket_send_str(tcps, host);
+      if (strchr(host, ':')) {
+        tcp_socket_send_str(tcps, "]");
+      }
       tcp_socket_send_str(tcps, "\r\n");
       if(s->postdata != NULL) {
         if(s->content_type) {