[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15936: IPv6 literal support in multisite broken

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#15936: IPv6 literal support in multisite broken
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 Reporter:  jmdh                                 |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:
Component:  Networks and Sites                   |     Version:  3.0
 Severity:  major                                |  Resolution:  maybelater
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests dev-        |     Focuses:  multisite
  feedback                                       |
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Changes (by jeremyfelt):

 * status:  assigned => closed
 * resolution:   => maybelater
 * milestone:  Future Release =>


Comment:

 @johnjamesjacoby, @johnbillion, and I chatted about this ticket in #core-
 multisite today.

 I'm going to close this out as maybelater and reopen #21077 as a ticket to
 introduce support for port numbers.

 A couple opinions:

 * Actually testing a IPv6 environment proved difficult. I wasn't able to
 setup anything consistent in which I was confident that I was sending IPv6
 requests and that the server was receiving and handling them properly.
 Without clear guidelines for how to test any patches, we aren't going to
 have the confidence necessary to merge.
 * I'm not sure what the production use case is for supporting IPv6 as a
 site domain. Multisite does not (to my knowledge) currently support IPv4
 as a site domain either.
 * Port numbers are a good first step and should prove to be immediately
 useful for local environments (such as WordPress's) that use them.

 If we reopen this in the future, it would be good to first establish a
 clear use case and process for testing.

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