Patches by Michael Reilly to correctly deal with ftp URLs of the form
ftp://user@host//root/path: the double slash in the pathname means to
go to the root directory even if the initial directory isn't the root.
diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index ad1e791..4bd329f 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -362,6 +362,7 @@
dirs = string.splitfields(path, '/')
dirs, file = dirs[:-1], dirs[-1]
if dirs and not dirs[0]: dirs = dirs[1:]
+ if dirs and not dirs[0]: dirs[0] = '/'
key = (user, host, port, string.joinfields(dirs, '/'))
# XXX thread unsafe!
if len(self.ftpcache) > MAXFTPCACHE: