commit 4eb521e595216a406ad1d3175056dc8cd8be157b
author Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> Sun Apr 02 20:37:17 2006 +0000
committer Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> Sun Apr 02 20:37:17 2006 +0000
tree 85491c7b55a4ad01bc4b0b6deceeeddee2be7b44
parent 31fe35bdeeaf231130784140597cc680902b8979

bug #1462706: guard against host not having FQDN hostname

Lib/urllib2.py

diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index c3afae6..21f916c 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -1130,8 +1130,11 @@
     names = None
     def get_names(self):
         if FileHandler.names is None:
-            FileHandler.names = (socket.gethostbyname('localhost'),
-                                 socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()))
+            try:
+                FileHandler.names = (socket.gethostbyname('localhost'),
+                                    socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()))
+            except socket.gaierror:
+                FileHandler.names = (socket.gethostbyname('localhost'),)
         return FileHandler.names
 
     # not entirely sure what the rules are here