urllib/ftpwrapper

[Oleg Broytmann]

Hello!

   In the urllib.py (Python 1.5.2) there is a class ftpwrapper. In the line
610 of the module it has the call self.ftp.voidresp() (method endtransfer).
   This call hangs an almost all FTP URLs. You noted it too - reread your
comment in webchecker.py, method safeclose :)

   To overcome the problem I wrote my version of ftpwrapper (in my URL
robot) without the call to voidresp. Last night the robot checked a
database of 3000 URLs, and never failed on FTP URLs.

   Do you understand and can explain why the call is there? Could we just
remove it from urllib?

Oleg.            (All opinions are mine and not of my employer)
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    Oleg Broytmann      Foundation for Effective Policies      phd at phd.russ.ru
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.