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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/urllib.request.rst8
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_urllib2.py4
-rw-r--r--Lib/urllib/request.py6
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS6
4 files changed, 17 insertions, 7 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:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 5a168ee..8d59180 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -731,11 +731,11 @@ class HandlerTests(unittest.TestCase):
# file:///blah.txt (a file)
# file://ftp.example.com/blah.txt (an ftp URL)
for url, ftp in [
- ("file://ftp.example.com//foo.txt", True),
+ ("file://ftp.example.com//foo.txt", False),
("file://ftp.example.com///foo.txt", False),
# XXXX bug: fails with OSError, should be URLError
("file://ftp.example.com/foo.txt", False),
- ("file://somehost//foo/something.txt", True),
+ ("file://somehost//foo/something.txt", False),
("file://localhost//foo/something.txt", False),
]:
req = Request(url)
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index e2845c9..9674b96 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -1228,8 +1228,8 @@ class FileHandler(BaseHandler):
url = req.selector
if url[:2] == '//' and url[2:3] != '/' and (req.host and
req.host != 'localhost'):
- req.type = 'ftp'
- return self.parent.open(req)
+ if not req.host is self.get_names():
+ raise URLError("file:// scheme is supported only on localhost")
else:
return self.open_local_file(req)
@@ -1712,7 +1712,7 @@ class URLopener:
if not isinstance(url, str):
raise URLError('file error', 'proxy support for file protocol currently not implemented')
if url[:2] == '//' and url[2:3] != '/' and url[2:12].lower() != 'localhost/':
- return self.open_ftp(url)
+ raise ValueError("file:// scheme is supported only on localhost")
else:
return self.open_local_file(url)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4392432..c8a43b5 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #Issue10063: file:// scheme will stop accessing remote hosts via ftp
+ protocol. file:// urls had fallback to access remote hosts via ftp. This was
+ not correct, change is made to raise a URLError when a remote host is tried
+ to access via file:// scheme.
+
+
- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.