urllib.urlretrieve and PASV mode

[Thomas Weholt]

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.

Thomas

"Mats Wichmann" <mats at laplaza.org> wrote in message
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>
> Is there a way when using urllib.urlretrieve() to
> use passive mode for ftp transfers?  It looks like
> this is supported in ftplib (set_pasv method),
> but not used by urllib. Unless I'm missing something.
>
>
> Mats
>
> Mats Wichmann
>