[ python-Bugs-1357260 ] urllib/urllib2 cannot ftp files which are not listable.

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Bugs item #1357260, was opened at 2005-11-15 10:35
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Category: Python Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Bugs Fly (mozbugbox)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: urllib/urllib2 cannot ftp files which are not listable.

Initial Comment:
For whatever reason (security, privacy), there are ftp
sites which will not allow ftp list command while
normal downloading can be performed "blindly". This
mostly happens on direct linked ftp urls.

In urllib.py, the ftp wrapper first check with
"self.ftp.nlst(file)" before downloading, thus prevent
the above sites from being useful. From the codes
around, I saw no reason this extra step/check was
performed at all. If the file really did not exist,
RETR would return a suitable error anyway as checked by
the code below.



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>Comment By: Bugs Fly (mozbugbox)
Date: 2005-11-15 11:37

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This might be related to bug #635453 but this is a bigger
bug than a directory list is returned. If an existing file
cannot be retrieved, then functionally is totally broken,
there are no work around in this case.





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