2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 67d81e0eb01..a4ae2ed7a3e 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-11-02  Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
+
+        * net/eww.el (eww): Recognize colon-delimited IPv6 addresses.
+        (Bug#18603).
+
 2014-11-02  Brian McKenna <brian@brianmckenna.org>  (tiny change)
 
         * net/eww.el (eww-submit): Encode empty form values as "".
diff --git a/lisp/net/eww.el b/lisp/net/eww.el
index 508559e6531..0f0a5924158 100644
--- a/lisp/net/eww.el
+++ b/lisp/net/eww.el
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ word(s) will be searched for via `eww-search-prefix'."
         (t
          (if (and (= (length (split-string url)) 1)
                  (or (and (not (string-match-p "\\`[\"\'].*[\"\']\\'" url))
-                          (> (length (split-string url "\\.")) 1))
+                          (> (length (split-string url "[.:]")) 1))
                      (string-match eww-local-regex url)))
              (progn
                (unless (string-match-p "\\`[a-zA-Z][-a-zA-Z0-9+.]*://" url)