Sjoerd Mullender:
In splithost, accept empty host part in URLs. This is required for
file URLs that can have an empty host part. For such URLs, we should
not return the initial 2 slashes as part of the file name.
diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index c12f451..ad1e791 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@
global _hostprog
if _hostprog is None:
import re
- _hostprog = re.compile('^//([^/]+)(.*)$')
+ _hostprog = re.compile('^//([^/]*)(.*)$')
match = _hostprog.match(url)
if match: return match.group(1, 2)