Bugs item #902075, was opened at 2004-02-22 21:05 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by spiv You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=902075&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.3 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Matthias Klose (doko) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: urllib2 should be more robust for sloppy proxy URLs Initial Comment: passing an URL like "foo.bar.baz" instead of "http://foo.bar.baz" results in a stacktrace: File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 326, in open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 306, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 491, in <lambda> lambda r, proxy=url, type=type, meth=self.proxy_open: \ File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 498, in proxy_open if '@' in host: TypeError: iterable argument required This could be fixed by calling urlparse.urlparse on the proxy url, either in the calling code or in the library code, which I would prefer to make it more robust about sloppy URLs passed in the http_proxy environment variable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Andrew Bennetts (spiv) Date: 2006-01-17 14:04 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=50945 I think test cases would help the patch at http://bugs.debian.org/233305 get applied. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Chris Lawrence (lordsutch) Date: 2004-03-25 08:51 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=6757 I've put together a patch, which can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/233305; it isn't perfect (ideally the entire routine should be rewritten, as it's processing environment data that could be from the "wild"), but it avoids the traceback. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Matthias Klose (doko) Date: 2004-02-22 21:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=60903 Ok, I see, PEP42 ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=902075&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com