[Python-Dev] Can ftp url start with file:// ? (original) (raw)

Senthil Kumaran orsenthil at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 05:52:32 CEST 2010


Strictly not a Python question, but I wanted to know from the experience of others in this list.

Is this is valid ftp url?

file://ftp.example.com/blah.txt (an ftp URL)

My answer is no. When we have the scheme specifically mentioned as file:// it is no point in considering it as ftp url (which should start with ftp://).

If I go ahead with this assumption and fix a bug in stdlib, I am introducing a regression because at the moment the above is considered a ftp url.

-- Senthil

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