Method on Authority to get the host without [] for IPv6 addresses
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Description
Right now Authority::host returns the hostname, dotted-ipv4-address, or []-surrounded-ipv6 address. However, for many use cases you don't want the [] for IPv6, they're part of the URI encoding, not the IP itself. Today's use case is transforming an HTTP Uri into a rustls-pki-type's ServerName, which doesn't accept the [] version.
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Research direction
Start at Authority::host and compare its URI host handling with the form accepted by rustls-pki-types' ServerName. Done means providing a way to obtain an IPv6 host without URI brackets while preserving existing host behavior, with coverage for the requested case.
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- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Feature
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