[XML-SIG] Error 404 and xml.dom.ext.reader

[Uche Ogbuji]

> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:38:51AM +0200, Alexandre wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 05:50:06PM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > > Mike Olson <Mike.Olson@fourthought.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > I think it is a good idea.
> > > 
> > > I agree. Alexandre, would you like to implement that change?
> > 
> > I'll give it a try today. 
> 
> OK, I've got something up and running, which runs nicely with
> regrtest.py. I'll be committing it very soon. 
> 
> The changes are mainly on the line of changing urllib.urlopen to
> urllib2.urlopen, and urllib.basejoin to urlparse.urljoin. 

Hmm.  Here be dragons.

There are subtle but important differences between the behavior of  
urllib.basejoin and  urlparse.urljoin, especially with file URLs in Windows.  
I don't remember the full details off-head but I think Tom Passim and Mike 
Olson had detailed messages on this in the past.

I would suggest keeping urllib around just for basejoin, since it seems we've 
reached, after a lot of tinkering,  a balance where the fewest number of 
platform users scream  :-)


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