Validation failure for shorthand IPv6 urls

[driegel]

Hello,

I believe that this is a bug in Kibana 4.2 and 4.3:

In the 'config/kibana.yml' I am using the following setting:

elasticsearch.url: "http://[::1]:9200"

While running Kibana 4.3, I get the following fatal error:

ValidationError: child "elasticsearch" fails because [child "url" fails because ["url" must be a valid uri with a scheme matching the http|https pattern]]

I believe that I am using a proper IPv6 url and it works (similar) with Kibana 4.1.3. Thanks for looking into this.

[bsll]

I have the same questions. the "elasticsearch.url" shoule be corrected by “elasticsearch_url”.

[spalger]

@bsll elasticsearch_url was deprecated with 4.2 and it is now elasticsearch.url

[rocky4bmw]

Hi Spalger,

How can this issue be resolved?

[fatal] ValidationError: child "elasticsearch" fails because [child "url" fails because ["url" must be a valid uri with a scheme matching the http|https pattern]]

[driegel]

Well, as far as I understand it should be easy to fix that because it's actually using valid IPv6 URLs - only the safety check fails.

Unfortunately, I do not see that it is scheduled to be fixed in the upcoming 5.0 release and also, if someone would submit a pull request today, I doubt that it would make it in the upcoming 5.0 release.

[jbudz]

Full IPv6 addresses should work, something like : elasticsearch.url: "http://[0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001]:9200"

[driegel]

Well, IPv6 addresses may come from an database or Puppet. It is not sufficient if some IPv6 notations work, I feel that all valid IPv6 notations must work!

[jbudz]

This is fixed now, I'm not sure the exact version but tested working in 5.6+. There's another change we need to make for browser requests at #29891 but we can close this out now.