[New-bugs-announce] [issue35236] urllib.request.urlopen throws on some valid FTP files

[Ian Liu Rodrigues]

New submission from Ian Liu Rodrigues <ian.liu88 at gmail.com>:

Some FTP clients will not allow changing to a directory if the path does not ends with a slash. For example, try out this in a public FTP:

from ftplib import FTP
ftp = FTP('ftp.unicamp.br')
ftp.login()
ftp.cwd('pub/libreoffice') # throws error
ftp.cwd('pub/libreoffice/') # OK

The problem is urllib.request doesn't include the trailing slash, thus throwing an error. This behavior also happens with the command line ftp client.

I think this happens because the libreoffice directory is a symlink, and this can be a FTP server specific behavior.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 329862
nosy: Ian Liu Rodrigues
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: urllib.request.urlopen throws on some valid FTP files
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7

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