[Distutils] [issue7] allow-host will not allow local files

[Tarek Ziadé]

New submission from Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:

while playing with the allow-host options in setuptools, I have noticed
that it is restricted to URLs because url_ok() uses urlparse
over the regular expressions that are provided

This means that it is not possible to allow local folders to be visited
since a "file://*" expression for example,
will lead to an empty string:

>>> import urlparse
>>> urlparse.urlparse('file:///tmp/my/local/file.tgz')[1]
''

This will make some links blocked and impossible to add as authorized
resource:

...
Link to file:///tmp/tmpE-LbUpbuildouttests/setuptools/ ***BLOCKED*** by
--allow-hosts
...


I have attached a patch to fix this.

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files: distutils.allow-hosts.patch
messages: 8
nosy: tarek
priority: bug
status: unread
title: allow-host will not allow local files
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/file2/distutils.allow-hosts.patch

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