IPv6 connection woes

[phspies]

I'm trying to use WinRM within a IPv6 environment, and from the internet posts it seems that IPv6 is almost never mentioned. What is the connection string for using a IPv6 address and is it even supported?

Connected successfully to [2607:f480:111:1318:5360:597:e103:4c37] at http://[2607:f480:111:1318:5360:597:e103:4c37]:5985/wsman.
WARNING: Failed to connect to [2607:f480:111:1318:5360:597:e103:4c37] at http://[2607:f480:111:1318:5360:597:e103:4c37]:5985/wsman.
error_message:        No valid WSMan endoint listening at http://[2607:f480:111:1318:5360:597:e103:4c37]:5985/wsman.
host:                 [2607:f480:111:1318:5360:597:e103:4c37]
response_status_code: 400
wsman_port:           5985
wsman_url:            http://[2607:f480:111:1318:5360:597:e103:4c37]:5985/wsman

Regards

[mwrock]

One thing you might try checking is if your httpclient gem is at v 2.4.0 or later. IPv6 compatibility was added in that version. That was back in June 2014, but its possible you have an older version since WinRM is happy with 2.2 forward.

[phspies]

httpclient (2.7.0.1) is loaded. Do you think you need something special to make that work?

[sovapatr]

The issue for me was the httpclient not putting brackets around the Host header for the IPv6 request.
nahi/httpclient#388