[ python-Bugs-1027206 ] unicode DNS names in socket, urllib, urlopen

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Bugs item #1027206, was opened at 2004-09-13 14:38
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Damjan Georgievski (gdamjan)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: unicode DNS names in socket, urllib, urlopen

Initial Comment:
http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/node18.html says that
unicode host names are allowed in the socket module
(automatically converting them by the IDNA spec), but
is seems the support is not fully implemented.

only the connect method of a socket instance will do
the auto conversion to a 'idna' string. 
socket.getaddr* functions will not!

Also other modules should support unicode hostnames.
(httplib already does) but urllib and urllib2 don't.


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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2004-09-14 09:32

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Would you be interested in developing patches? For the
socket module, the bug is clear, and probably
straight-forward to fix. For urllib[2], issues are more
difficult, as Python should eventually support IRIs. It
appears that draft-duerst-iri-09 is going to become the RFC,
so changes for urllib either need to take this into account,
or be postponed after the RFC is published.

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