From 3427c1f71b584884142bc764be7b4f6b3efde3da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 23:20:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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.
---
 Lib/urllib.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index c12f4519cc..ad1e791386 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ def splithost(url):
     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)
-- 
2.40.0