[ python-Bugs-745097 ] urllib2 doesn't handle urls without scheme

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Bugs item #745097, was opened at 2003-05-28 19:54
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Category: Python Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jack Jansen (jackjansen)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: urllib2 doesn't handle urls without scheme

Initial Comment:
urllib2.urlopen does not handle URLs without a scheme, so the 
following code will not work:
    url = urllib.pathname2url('/etc/passwd')
    urllib2.urlopen(url)
The same code does work with urllib.urlopen.

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Comment By: John J Lee (jjlee)
Date: 2003-11-30 23:24

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Is it wise to allow this?  Maybe it's unlikely to cause bugs, but 
"/etc/passwd" could refer to any URI scheme, not only file:. 
 
Since it seems reasonable to only allow absolute URLs, I think 
it's a bad idea to guess the scheme is file: when given a 
relative URL. 

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