Bugs item #1097834, was opened at 2005-01-07 07:49 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by fdrake You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1097834&group_id=5470
Category: None Group: None >Status: Closed >Resolution: Invalid Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jack Jansen (jackjansen) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: urllib2 doesn't handle urls without a scheme Initial Comment: Unlike urllib, urllib2 does not handle "/path/to/file" style urls (without a scheme) as "file:" urls. I'm not sure whether this is a bug per se, but if this behaviour is by design then urllib2 should get a pathname2url() method that changes a pathname to a "file:"-prefixed url. urllib.pathname2url() does not prefix the url, but that's fine because urllib.urlopen() treats urls without schemes as file: urls. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake) Date: 2005-01-19 01:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=3066 There's no such thing as a URL without a scheme, regardless of what browsers do. The best thing to do is to determine the "base" to which a relative URL reference (whcih can have the scheme omitted) should be resolved, and join the base and relative URL reference using urlparse.urljoin(base, rel). Closing as "not a bug". urllib.pathname2url() is a problem in it's own right; it doesn't behave consistently across Windows and Unix. On Windows, pathname2url() returns too many slashes, or it returns too few on Unix. I've been using helper functions that hide that difference. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1097834&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
