Method on Authority to get the host without [] for IPv6 addresses

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
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68/100
Issue type
Feature
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Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
rust
Domain
networking

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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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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