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| author | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> | 2010-10-14 11:57:35 (GMT) |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> | 2010-10-14 11:57:35 (GMT) |
| commit | 383c32dd3821828f271c0bf7bcf21f0ba71792e8 (patch) | |
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Issue10063 - file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp protocol
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/urllib.request.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index 21c1c2f..5581f25 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -1004,8 +1004,12 @@ FileHandler Objects .. method:: FileHandler.file_open(req) Open the file locally, if there is no host name, or the host name is - ``'localhost'``. Change the protocol to ``ftp`` otherwise, and retry opening it - using :attr:`parent`. + ``'localhost'``. + + This method is applicable only for local hostnames. When a remote hostname + is given, an :exc:`URLError` is raised. + +.. versionchanged:: 3.2 .. _ftp-handler-objects: |