diff --git a/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
index 15c5cf634cf508..a9c421d093b949 100644
--- a/Lib/http/client.py
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -905,17 +905,23 @@ def _get_hostport(self, host, port):
                 host = host[:i]
             else:
                 port = self.default_port
-            if host and host[0] == '[' and host[-1] == ']':
-                host = host[1:-1]
+        if host and host[0] == '[' and host[-1] == ']':
+            host = host[1:-1]
 
         return (host, port)
 
     def set_debuglevel(self, level):
         self.debuglevel = level
 
+    def _wrap_ipv6(self, ip):
+        if ip.find(b':') >= 0 and ip.find(b'[') != 0:
+            return b"[" + ip + b"]"
+        return ip
+
     def _tunnel(self):
         connect = b"CONNECT %s:%d HTTP/1.0\r\n" % (
-            self._tunnel_host.encode("ascii"), self._tunnel_port)
+            self._wrap_ipv6(self._tunnel_host.encode("ascii")),
+            self._tunnel_port)
         headers = [connect]
         for header, value in self._tunnel_headers.items():
             headers.append(f"{header}: {value}\r\n".encode("latin-1"))
@@ -1177,9 +1183,7 @@ def putrequest(self, method, url, skip_host=False,
 
                     # As per RFC 273, IPv6 address should be wrapped with []
                     # when used as Host header
-
-                    if host.find(':') >= 0:
-                        host_enc = b'[' + host_enc + b']'
+                    host_enc = self._wrap_ipv6(host_enc)
 
                     if port == self.default_port:
                         self.putheader('Host', host_enc)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
index 620a5b19109a8c..92a13cd2b1fd96 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
@@ -2262,6 +2262,23 @@ def test_connect_put_request(self):
         self.assertIn(b'CONNECT destination.com', self.conn.sock.data)
         self.assertIn(b'Host: destination.com', self.conn.sock.data)
 
+    def test_connect_put_request_ipv6(self):
+        self.conn.set_tunnel('[1:2:3::4]', 1234)
+        self.conn.request('PUT', '/', '')
+        self.assertEqual(self.conn.sock.host, self.host)
+        self.assertEqual(self.conn.sock.port, client.HTTP_PORT)
+        self.assertIn(b'CONNECT [1:2:3::4]:1234', self.conn.sock.data)
+        self.assertIn(b'Host: [1:2:3::4]:1234', self.conn.sock.data)
+
+    def test_connect_put_request_ipv6_port(self):
+        self.conn.set_tunnel('[1:2:3::4]:1234')
+        self.conn.request('PUT', '/', '')
+        self.assertEqual(self.conn.sock.host, self.host)
+        self.assertEqual(self.conn.sock.port, client.HTTP_PORT)
+        self.assertIn(b'CONNECT [1:2:3::4]:1234', self.conn.sock.data)
+        self.assertIn(b'Host: [1:2:3::4]:1234', self.conn.sock.data)
+
+
     def test_tunnel_debuglog(self):
         expected_header = 'X-Dummy: 1'
         response_text = 'HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n{}\r\n\r\n'.format(expected_header)
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 33dbf4e989d96a..e050d31d808b1f 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -741,6 +741,7 @@ Raymond Hettinger
 Lisa Hewus Fresh
 Kevan Heydon
 Wouter van Heyst
+Derek Higgins
 Kelsey Hightower
 Jason Hildebrand
 Ryan Hileman
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-12-14-16-01.gh-issue-100985.GT5Fvd.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-12-14-16-01.gh-issue-100985.GT5Fvd.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..4d4b36e77b8497
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-12-14-16-01.gh-issue-100985.GT5Fvd.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Update HTTPSConnection to consistently wrap IPv6 Addresses when using a
+proxy