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  r80955 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-05-08 08:59:09 +0530 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 9 lines

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    r80953 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-05-08 08:41:50 +0530 (Sat, 08 May 2010) | 3 lines

    Fix Issue8656 - urllib2 mangles file://-scheme URLs
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diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index 002e326..6e892e4 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -1216,7 +1216,8 @@
                 host, port = splitport(host)
             if not host or \
                 (not port and _safe_gethostbyname(host) in self.get_names()):
-                return addinfourl(open(localfile, 'rb'), headers, 'file:'+file)
+                return addinfourl(open(localfile, 'rb'), headers, 'file://'+
+                        host + file)
         except OSError as msg:
             # users shouldn't expect OSErrors coming from urlopen()
             raise URLError(msg)