[ python-Bugs-649962 ] All URL funcs mishandle file://localhost

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Bugs item #649962, was opened at 2002-12-07 08:28
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.2.1
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Mike Brown (mike_j_brown)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: All URL funcs mishandle file://localhost

Initial Comment:
Per RFC 1738 section 3.10: "A file URL takes the form: 
file://<host>/<path> ... As a special case, <host> can 
be the string "localhost" or the empty string; this is 
interpreted as `the machine from which the URL is being 
interpreted".

In other words, regardless of what DNS or NetBIOS say 
about "localhost", it is always the local machine.

Therefore, functions like urllib.url2pathname() and 
urllib.urlopen() and anything else that takes a URL 
argument should treat &#039;///path/to/file&#039; 
and &#039;//localhost/path/to/file&#039; identically, 
returning &#039;/path/to/file&#039; on Unix or &#039;\path\to\file&#039; on 
Windows, for example.

(note separate bug report filed for url2pathname() 
mishandling &#039;///path/to/file&#039; on Windows)


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Comment By: troy melhase (troy_melhase)
Date: 2004-03-16 21:03

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Should be closed; duplicate of bug #607789, now closed.

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