Hi, We have been adding support for IPV6 in our application. We have Perl scripts executing XML-RPC client commands against a Java-based XML-RPC server. Trying to connect to an IPV6 address fails with "Bad hostname": 
my $cli = RPC::XML::Client->new("http://localhost6:$port/RPC2");
my $cli_client = RPC::XML::request->new('AnaXmlRpcHandler.execute', ,R
+PC::XML::array->new(map {RPC::XML::string->new($_)} @arr));

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Result:

Can't locate object method "value" via package "RPC::XML::Client::request: HTTP server error: Can't connect to localhost6:8099 (Bad hostname 'localhost6')" (perhaps you forgot to load "RPC::XML::Client::request: HTTP server error: Can't connect to localhost6:8099 (Bad hostname 'localhost6')"?)

The following attempt also fails: 
my $cli = RPC::XML::Client->new("http://[2001:db8:c18:2:250:56ff:fead:
+2d92]:$port/RPC2");
my $cli_client = RPC::XML::request->new('AnaXmlRpcHandler.execute', ,R
+PC::XML::array->new(map {RPC::XML::string->new($_)} @arr));

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Can't locate object method "value" via package "RPC::XML::Client::request: HTTP server error: Can't connect to 2001:db8:c18:2:250:56ff:fead:2d92:8099 (Bad hostname '2001:db8:c18:2:250:56ff:fead:2d92')" (perhaps you forgot to load "RPC::XML::Client::request: HTTP server error: Can't connect to 2001:db8:c18:2:250:56ff:fead:2d92:8099 (Bad hostname '2001:db8:c18:2:250:56ff:fead:2d92')"?)

I've read the "State of Perl", and would like to know whether upgrading some of the dependant modules will do, and if not, what other options are available?

In reply to IPv6 support for XML-RPC modules by daphnaw

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