commit 3ae2dc5e5ea7521426ce3f34afa18147435ede5c
author Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> Thu Sep 12 19:47:52 2002 +0000
committer Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> Thu Sep 12 19:47:52 2002 +0000
tree 553e647feee751d31857d4d4facadb065651802e
parent 10c6eda070f3754a40f6ea3cdf8c571bbc27f038

Treat file://localhost/ as local too (same as file:/ and file:///).
Fixes #607789, bugfix candidate.

Lib/urllib.py

diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index 758ab92..7b39ea9 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@
 
     def open_file(self, url):
         """Use local file or FTP depending on form of URL."""
-        if url[:2] == '//' and url[2:3] != '/':
+        if url[:2] == '//' and url[2:3] != '/' and url[2:12] != 'localhost/':
             return self.open_ftp(url)
         else:
             return self.open_local_file(url)