Derek Morr <derekm...@psu.edu> added the comment: My understanding is that the FileHandler checks if the file:// URL contains the hostname or localhost IP of the local machine (isn't that what FileHandler.names is for?). So, shouldn't the following URLs all open the same file:
file:///foo.txt file://localhost/foo.txt file://127.0.0.1/foo.txt file://[::1]/foo.txt If that is the case, then doesn't FileHandler.names need to have all of those values in it? I am a little confused by this though. It looks like FileHandler.file_open() checks if there is a hostname in the URL, and if so, uses FTPHandler instead. So why does FileHandler.open_local_file check the hostname value? For your other points, gethostbyname() in libc can only handle IPv4 addresses. The IETF defined the getaddrinfo() interface as an IP version neutral replacement. I would recommend using getaddrinfo(). Yes, FTPHandler creates an urllib.FTPWrapper object. That object calls into ftplib, which is already IPv6-capable. So, I don't think we need to do hostname resolution in FTPHandler. _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1675455> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
