Ani Sinha

> @ani-sinha , @major , or @xiachen-rh , would any of you be able to review and/or test these changes? I don't have enough background with SELinux to know the...

Please prioritize this fix.

> I worked around the bug with: > > ``` > # Workaround for bug in requests 2.32.x: https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/6735 > def requests_workaround(method, url, json, headers, auth, verify=False): > # Create...

> > I worked around the bug with: snip ... > I tried something in cloud-init along the lines: > > ``` > diff --git a/cloudinit/url_helper.py b/cloudinit/url_helper.py > index 5adf1f18b..e39dc019a...

> It's only when the metadata endpoint is on a scoped link-local address that it fails Correct.

@xiachen-rh did testing and analysis and I summarized the issue in https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/6735 . This is not a cloud-init issue but an issue in python requests package but they have not...

@xiachen-rh Can we do some testing on this change on RHEL-10 and using the same repro case we had before? Also does this fix your test case https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/6735#issuecomment-2560736811 ?

> @ani-sinha I tested this changes on OpenStack env with ipv6 only network, cloud-init can get metadata via ipv6, so cloud-init can work without changing the code of 'requests'. @holmanb...

> > @ani-sinha I tested this changes on OpenStack env with ipv6 only network, cloud-init can get metadata via ipv6, so cloud-init can work without changing the code of 'requests'....

@holmanb @TheRealFalcon could we have a non-python based solution please? Seems a very large number of distros are affected by the dependency change. Looking at your [comment](https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/5489#issuecomment-2451590447) when will we...