Fix for Issue7751: urllib.urlopen("///C|/foo/bar/spam.foo")

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
index 1d7fd73..1cf8e44 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
@@ -93,7 +93,6 @@ class urlopen_FileTests(unittest.TestCase):
         for line in self.returned_obj.__iter__():
             self.assertEqual(line, self.text)
 
-
 class ProxyTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
@@ -607,6 +606,11 @@ class URLopener_Tests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(DummyURLopener().open(
             'spam://example/ /'),'//example/%20/')
 
+        # test the safe characters are not quoted by urlopen
+        self.assertEqual(DummyURLopener().open(
+            "spam://c:|windows%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]|/path/"),
+            "//c:|windows%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]|/path/")
+
 
 # Just commented them out.
 # Can't really tell why keep failing in windows and sparc.
diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index d4740e9..58e750a 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ class URLopener:
         fullurl = unwrap(toBytes(fullurl))
         # percent encode url, fixing lame server errors for e.g, like space
         # within url paths.
-        fullurl = quote(fullurl, safe="%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]")
+        fullurl = quote(fullurl, safe="%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]|")
         if self.tempcache and fullurl in self.tempcache:
             filename, headers = self.tempcache[fullurl]
             fp = open(filename, 'rb')