twisted.web.client._URI.fromBytes does not handle ipv6 addresses

[LaMont Jones]

Certainly by 13.2.0-1ubuntu1 (trusty), fromBytes blows up when handed an ipv6 address, because of an assumption that the only valid use of a colon is as part of a port specification. See also bug #1372767.

Patch attached which should fix the issue, though it is against 1:15.2.1-1ubuntu1, and needs a "s/URI/_URI/g" before it will apply to the trusty version.

[LaMont Jones (lamont)]

attaching the correct patch

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and providing a patch.

I've assigned the ubuntu-reviewers team who will hopefully soon take a look at and review the patch.

Normal procedure is that patches are applied to the current development version of Ubuntu, and then possibly also for older releases. See details on the Stable Release Update procedure for more information on this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates.

[LaMont Jones (lamont)]

This is the actual and verified patch for 15.2.1-1ubutnu1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package twisted - 15.2.1-1ubuntu2

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twisted (15.2.1-1ubuntu2) wily; urgency=medium

  * web/client: allow IPv6 addresses. lp1505748.diff
    LP: #1505748

 -- LaMont Jones <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:00:28 -0600