commit 44a118af5043ed6919bd1d0bcfc603f496ae4d7c
author Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> Sun Apr 30 09:23:59 2006 +0000
committer Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> Sun Apr 30 09:23:59 2006 +0000
tree 84e047c1102dc675b61062daa84305b8e14a4814
parent bffb0bc064c25032264037e3c0405d7ab0d3c149

Patch #1470976: don't NLST files when retrieving over FTP.

Lib/urllib.py

diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index c1f6f60..5c02883 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -856,13 +856,6 @@
             self.ftp.voidcmd(cmd)
         conn = None
         if file and not isdir:
-            # Use nlst to see if the file exists at all
-            try:
-                self.ftp.nlst(file)
-            except ftplib.error_perm, reason:
-                raise IOError, ('ftp error', reason), sys.exc_info()[2]
-            # Restore the transfer mode!
-            self.ftp.voidcmd(cmd)
             # Try to retrieve as a file
             try:
                 cmd = 'RETR ' + file