diff --git a/src/libutil/tests/url.cc b/src/libutil/tests/url.cc
index 80646ad3e..aff58e9ee 100644
--- a/src/libutil/tests/url.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/tests/url.cc
@@ -117,6 +117,24 @@ namespace nix {
         ASSERT_EQ(parsed, expected);
     }
 
+    TEST(parseURL, parseScopedRFC4007IPv6Address) {
+        auto s = "http://[fe80::818c:da4d:8975:415c\%enp0s25]:8080";
+        auto parsed = parseURL(s);
+
+        ParsedURL expected {
+            .url = "http://[fe80::818c:da4d:8975:415c\%enp0s25]:8080",
+            .base = "http://[fe80::818c:da4d:8975:415c\%enp0s25]:8080",
+            .scheme = "http",
+            .authority = "[fe80::818c:da4d:8975:415c\%enp0s25]:8080",
+            .path = "",
+            .query = (StringMap) { },
+            .fragment = "",
+        };
+
+        ASSERT_EQ(parsed, expected);
+
+    }
+
     TEST(parseURL, parseIPv6Address) {
         auto s = "http://[2a02:8071:8192:c100:311d:192d:81ac:11ea]:8080";
         auto parsed = parseURL(s);
diff --git a/src/libutil/url-parts.hh b/src/libutil/url-parts.hh
index 862d9fa6e..da10a6bbc 100644
--- a/src/libutil/url-parts.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/url-parts.hh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ namespace nix {
 // URI stuff.
 const static std::string pctEncoded = "(?:%[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F])";
 const static std::string schemeRegex = "(?:[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*)";
-const static std::string ipv6AddressSegmentRegex = "[0-9a-fA-F:]+";
+const static std::string ipv6AddressSegmentRegex = "[0-9a-fA-F:]+(?:%\\w+)?";
 const static std::string ipv6AddressRegex = "(?:\\[" + ipv6AddressSegmentRegex + "\\]|" + ipv6AddressSegmentRegex + ")";
 const static std::string unreservedRegex = "(?:[a-zA-Z0-9-._~])";
 const static std::string subdelimsRegex = "(?:[!$&'\"()*+,;=])";