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authorSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2012-01-21 03:52:48 (GMT)
committerSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2012-01-21 03:52:48 (GMT)
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Fix Issue6631 - Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen
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-rw-r--r--Lib/urllib/request.py2
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diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index cf065715..94b713e 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -1781,6 +1781,8 @@ class URLopener:
urlfile = file
if file[:1] == '/':
urlfile = 'file://' + file
+ elif file[:2] == './':
+ raise ValueError("local file url may start with / or file:. Unknown url of type: %s" % url)
return addinfourl(open(localname, 'rb'), headers, urlfile)
raise URLError('local file error', 'not on local host')