# Unable to clone a repo over an IPv6 link local address: port got trimmed to 4 chars

3 messages from 2014-06-24 to 2014-06-24. Participants: Vincent B., Torsten Bögershausen.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/36990

## Vincent B., 2014-06-24 12:47

Subject: Unable to clone a repo over an IPv6 link local address: port got trimmed to 4 chars
Message-ID: <53A9735E.8080604@luminar.eu.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/53A9735E.8080604%40luminar.eu.org

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I discovered an issue while trying to clone a git repo over an IPv6 link-local address:

[vb@nerenyi ~/code/ocaml-llnet]% LANG=C git clone "http://[fe80::226:c6ff:fe50:efa0%wlan0]:33075/repo"

Cloning into 'repo'...
fatal: unable to access 'http://[fe80::226:c6ff:fe50:efa0%wlan0]:33075/repo/': Failed to connect to fe80::226:c6ff
:fe50:efa0 port 3307: Connection refused

It tries to connect to port 3307, and not 33075, strangely.

Cheers,

Vincent Bernardoff

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## Torsten Bögershausen, 2014-06-24 13:15

Subject: Re: Unable to clone a repo over an IPv6 link local address: port got trimmed to 4 chars
Message-ID: <53A97A08.2020304@web.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/53A97A08.2020304%40web.de
In-Reply-To: <53A9735E.8080604@luminar.eu.org>

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On 06/24/2014 02:47 PM, Vincent B. wrote:
> I discovered an issue while trying to clone a git repo over an IPv6 link-local address:
>
> [vb@nerenyi ~/code/ocaml-llnet]% LANG=C git clone "http://[fe80::226:c6ff:fe50:efa0%wlan0]:33075/repo"
>
> Cloning into 'repo'...
> fatal: unable to access 'http://[fe80::226:c6ff:fe50:efa0%wlan0]:33075/repo/': Failed to connect to fe80::226:c6ff
> :fe50:efa0 port 3307: Connection refused
>
> It tries to connect to port 3307, and not 33075, strangely.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vincent Bernardoff
Which OS are you using ?

what does
git --version
give?

And what does this do ?

GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 LANG=C git clone "http://[fe80::226:c6ff:fe50:efa0%wlan0]:33075/repo"

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## Vincent B., 2014-06-24 13:19

Subject: Re: Unable to clone a repo over an IPv6 link local address: port got trimmed to 4 chars
Message-ID: <53A97ACE.8040405@luminar.eu.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/53A97ACE.8040405%40luminar.eu.org
In-Reply-To: <53A97A08.2020304@web.de>

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On 24/06/2014 15:15, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
> Which OS are you using ?
> 
> what does
> git --version
> give?
> 
> And what does this do ?
> 
> GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 LANG=C git clone "http://[fe80::226:c6ff:fe50:efa0%wlan0]:33075/repo"
> 

My mistake, actually:

As per RFC6874, IPv6 URI with zones have to be encoded [::%25zone] and not [::%zone]. It is working now.

Thanks,

Vincent

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