diff --git a/lib/puppet/provider/heat_domain_id_setter/ruby.rb b/lib/puppet/provider/heat_domain_id_setter/ruby.rb
index ed1d34db..e48691fd 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/provider/heat_domain_id_setter/ruby.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/provider/heat_domain_id_setter/ruby.rb
@@ -30,7 +30,13 @@ end
 #   A parsed URL (returned from URI.parse)
 def handle_request(req, url)
     begin
-        res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) {|http|
+        # There is issue with ipv6 where address has to be in brackets, this causes the
+        # underlying ruby TCPSocket to fail. Net::HTTP.new will fail without brackets on
+        # joining the ipv6 address with :port or passing brackets to TCPSocket. It was
+        # found that if we use Net::HTTP.start with url.hostname the incriminated code
+        # won't be hit.
+        use_ssl = url.scheme == "https" ? true : false
+        res = Net::HTTP.start(url.hostname, url.port, {:use_ssl => use_ssl}) {|http|
             http.request(req)
         }