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  r82782 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-07-11 08:48:51 +0530 (Sun, 11 Jul 2010) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 82780 via svnmerge from
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    r82780 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-07-11 08:42:43 +0530 (Sun, 11 Jul 2010) | 3 lines

    Stricter verification for file based url scheme and reliance on ftp protocol.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 43d7c3d..65ad8e3 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -728,6 +728,8 @@
             ("file://ftp.example.com///foo.txt", False),
 # XXXX bug: fails with OSError, should be URLError
             ("file://ftp.example.com/foo.txt", False),
+            ("file://somehost//foo/something.txt", True),
+            ("file://localhost//foo/something.txt", False),
             ]:
             req = Request(url)
             try:
@@ -738,6 +740,7 @@
             else:
                 self.assert_(o.req is req)
                 self.assertEqual(req.type, "ftp")
+            self.assertEqual(req.type is "ftp", ftp)
 
     def test_http(self):