Mytts,
I think it unlikely that my suggested dirty hack would fix your problem, but just in case, I noticed that in Squeak, an IPv4 address is a Byte Array.
So this message *might* help (at the appropriate point in a throwaway hacked version of the HttpSocket>>httpGetDocument:args:accept:request: method)
t6 := #(46 30 212 164) asByteArray.
Have fun!
David