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

Senthil Kumaran orsenthil at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 06:38:04 CEST 2010

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 02:23:40PM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> 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://).

I agree. Just because the host is called ftp doesn't mean you should use the ftp protocol to get the file.

It was not just for the host being called ftp.example.com

It was for a pattern that file:/// is local file (correct) and file://localhost/somepath is again local file (correct again) but file://anyhost.domain/file.txt is actually ftp (pretty weird).

Do you have a url for the bug report?

http://bugs.python.org/issue8801

Don't go into the suggestion in the report, but just notice that file url lead to an ftp error exception.

-- Senthil

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