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

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Fri Jul 9 20:33:59 CEST 2010

Paul Moore wrote:

On 9 July 2010 19:04, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

If we want to perpetuate these guessing heuristics, I'd suggest using FTP if the hostname starts with "ftp.", and HTTP if the hostname starts with "www.", and raise an error otherwise.

From what Tim says, it sounds like guessing is only in 2.x. Removing the guessing clearly isn't a bug fix, so there's nothing to do in the 2.x line (as there won't be a 2.8). 3.1 already has the stricter (and in my view correct) behaviour, and I see no reason to introduce the 2.x behaviour into Python 3. So I'd say there's nothing to do. Paul.

This /could/ become a bugfix in 2.7.x if people thought it was a sufficiently egregious bug to need fixing. Given that the matter is only now coming to light it's probably bets to let sleeping dogs lie.

regards Steve

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