From 5c9eb2c7d1faa8b351c11ce034cce52941715d1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stuart Gros-Dubois <grosstua@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 12:23:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update equality check in HostPort class

Updated equality check to handle bracketing of IPv6 addresses. "[fe80:1:2:3::4]" is equal to "fe80:1:2:3::4"
---
 src/gov/nist/core/HostPort.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/gov/nist/core/HostPort.java b/src/gov/nist/core/HostPort.java
index 8dec69f1e..f1c3853bc 100755
--- a/src/gov/nist/core/HostPort.java
+++ b/src/gov/nist/core/HostPort.java
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ public boolean equals(Object other) {
             return false;
         }
         HostPort that = (HostPort) other;
-        return port == that.port && host.equals(that.host);
+        return port == this.encode().equals(that.encode());
     }
 
     /** get the Host field