urllib.urlretrieve and PASV mode

[Mats Wichmann]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:47:22 +0100, "Thomas Weholt" <2002 at weholt.org>
wrote:

:As far as I know, passive mode is ftp-specific. Urllib is used to
fetch
:files served over http and passive mode is not relevant to that
protocol.
:Correct me if I'm wrong.

urllib uses http if it looks like an http resource, and ftp (by
importing ftplib) if it looks like an ftp resource.

Mats Wichmann