wget does not support IPv6 address with scoped zone (RFC 4007)

RFC 4007 : https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4007.txt
Discussion upstream : http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2009-06/msg00000.html

Attaching a POC patch from upstream mailing list to demonstrate the fix, but it is hackish.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

How do I work around this?

Workaround is to use IPv4/NAT networking instead of link-local IPv6/http_proxy.

1. configure your lxdbr0 network with (private) IPv4 addresses and DHCP pool in /etc/default/lxd-bridge. Also set LXD_IPV4_NAT="true" and LXD_IPV6_PROXY="false". Restart.

2. "lxc profile edit default" to no longer use the IPv6 proxy.

name: default
config: {}
description: Default LXD profile
devices:
  eth0:
    name: eth0
    nictype: bridged
    parent: lxdbr0
    type: nic

Gold star for this man ^^^. Thanks.

Maybe this is helpful for fixing:
On a router with LEDE-based OS, I have two different "versions" of wget:

With full wget 1.18, I cannot use an IPv6 address with interface as described above.

However, with the wget included in BusyBox v1.25.1, the same command is working!

Command (in both cases):
wget http://[fe80::someip%br-mesh]/dev/firmware/current/release.nfo -P /tmp

dr@odroid:~$ export http_proxy=http://[fe80::9864:b6ff:fe00:3410%eth0]:3128/
dr@odroid:~$ curl -o gl.deb http://deb.odroid.in/5422-s/pool/main/m/mali-x11/mali-x11_20170718-r17p0-20503ff-3_armhf.deb
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 8157k 100 8157k 0 0 1932k 0 0:00:04 0:00:04 --:--:-- 1932k
dr@odroid:~$ wget http://deb.odroid.in/5422-s/pool/main/m/mali-x11/mali-x11_20170718-r17p0-20503ff-3_armhf.deb
Error parsing proxy URL http://[fe80::9864:b6ff:fe00:3410%eth0]:3128/: Invalid IPv6 numeric address.

this is on bionic using verion 1.19.4-1ubuntu2 .

I can confirm that the busybox version of wget knows how to correctly handle ipv6. (and gpg).

I only just saw this thread. Two comments:

1) The IETF draft at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-rfc6874bis/ aims to solve this problem generally, despite reluctance in the browser community.

2) I found that it was trivial to patch wget for this. See https://github.com/becarpenter/wget6/

I haven't submitted this patch formally since I'm waiting until the above draft is formally approved as an RFC, but it's open source so anybody is welcome to do the right thing...