Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> > Senthil's patch allows a redirect to ftp while Guido's doesn't.
> 
> That is a good question. Should we? It doesn't look like ftp:
> participates in the vulnerability, but I'm not sure how useful it is
> either.

I would say accept it anyway. That way we minimize potential for
compatibility breakage.
(do we support "ftps" as well? I don't think so)

> > Senthil's patch doesn't seem to fix urllib-inherited code, only
> urllib2- (see FancyURLopener.redirect_internal()).
> 
> Right, that's for Python 3.

FancyURLopener is still present in Python 3 (even though we would like
to deprecate it in 3.3).

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