[New-bugs-announce] [issue8656] urllib2 mangles file://-scheme URLs

[Dave Abrahams]

New submission from Dave Abrahams <dave at boostpro.com>:

$ touch /tmp/x.html
$ python -c 'import urllib2;resp=urllib2.urlopen("file:///tmp/x.html");print resp.geturl()'
file:/tmp/x.html

note the missing // after the colon

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messages: 105250
nosy: dabrahams
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: urllib2 mangles file://-scheme URLs
versions: Python 2.6

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