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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+package javax.xml.parsers;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.testng.Assert;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
+
+/*
+ * @bug 7166896
+ * @summary Test DocumentBuilder.parse(String uri) supports IPv6 format.
+ */
+public class Bug7166896Test {
+
+    @Test
+    public void test() throws Exception {
+        final String url = "http://[fe80::la03:73ff:fead:f7b0]/note.xml";
+        final DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+        domFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
+        DocumentBuilder builder;
+        Document doc = null;
+        System.out.println("URL is " + url);
+        try {
+            builder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
+            // here comes the MalformedURLException. With Java6 / 7 it looks
+            // like this:
+            // java.net.MalformedURLException: For input string:
+            // ":la03:73ff:fead:f7b0%5D"
+            // which is not fine.
+            // with xerces 2.11.0 it complains about a non-existing host, which
+            // is fine
+            System.out.println("passing URL to DocumentBuilder.parse()");
+            doc = builder.parse(url);
+
+        } catch (SAXException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            String em = e.getMessage();
+            System.err.println("Error message: " + em);
+            if (em.contains("For input string: \":la03:73ff:fead:f7b0%5D\"")) {
+                Assert.fail("failed to accept IPv6 address");
+            }
+        } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+
+    }
+}