From: Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:47:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Treat file://localhost/ as local too (same as file:/ and file:///).
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~4106
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3ae2dc5e5ea7521426ce3f34afa18147435ede5c;p=python

Treat file://localhost/ as local too (same as file:/ and file:///).
Fixes #607789, bugfix candidate.
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diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index 758ab925ca..7b39ea91b8 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ class URLopener:
 
     def open_file(self, url):
         """Use local file or FTP depending on form of URL."""
-        if url[:2] == '//' and url[2:3] != '/':
+        if url[:2] == '//' and url[2:3] != '/' and url[2:12] != 'localhost/':
             return self.open_ftp(url)
         else:
             return self.open_local_file(url)