diff --git a/websocket.py b/websocket.py
index dcc5f3b..03bedff 100644
--- a/websocket.py
+++ b/websocket.py
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ Sec-WebSocket-Accept: %s\r
         self.verbose        = verbose
         self.listen_host    = listen_host
         self.listen_port    = listen_port
+        self.prefer_ipv6    = source_is_ipv6
         self.ssl_only       = ssl_only
         self.daemon         = daemon
         self.run_once       = run_once
@@ -814,7 +815,7 @@ Sec-WebSocket-Accept: %s\r
         is a WebSockets client then call new_client() method (which must
         be overridden) for each new client connection.
         """
-        lsock = self.socket(self.listen_host, self.listen_port)
+        lsock = self.socket(self.listen_host, self.listen_port, False, self.prefer_ipv6)
 
         if self.daemon:
             self.daemonize(keepfd=lsock.fileno(), chdir=self.web)
diff --git a/websockify b/websockify
index bebe885..761fe90 100755
--- a/websockify
+++ b/websockify
@@ -266,6 +266,9 @@ def websockify_init():
             choices=["exit", "ignore", "respawn"],
             help="action to take when the wrapped program exits "
             "or daemonizes: exit (default), ignore, respawn")
+    parser.add_option("--prefer-ipv6", "-6",
+            action="store_true", dest="source_is_ipv6",
+            help="prefer IPv6 when resolving source_addr")
     (opts, args) = parser.parse_args()
 
     # Sanity checks
@@ -287,6 +290,7 @@ def websockify_init():
     # Parse host:port and convert ports to numbers
     if args[0].count(':') > 0:
         opts.listen_host, opts.listen_port = args[0].rsplit(':', 1)
+        opts.listen_host = opts.listen_host.strip('[]')
     else:
         opts.listen_host, opts.listen_port = '', args[0]
 
@@ -299,6 +303,7 @@ def websockify_init():
     else:
         if args[1].count(':') > 0:
             opts.target_host, opts.target_port = args[1].rsplit(':', 1)
+            opts.target_host = opts.target_host.strip('[]')
         else:
             parser.error("Error parsing target")
         try:    opts.target_port = int(opts.target_port)