Re: urllib2 FTP Weirdness

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Date	2013-01-24 10:58 +1100
Subject	Re: urllib2 FTP Weirdness
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Nick Cash
<nick.cash@npcinternational.com> wrote:
> Python 2.7.3 on linux
>
> This has me fairly stumped. It looks like
>         urllib2.urlopen("ftp://some.ftp.site/path").read()
> will either immediately return '' or hang indefinitely. But
>         response = urllib2.urlopen("ftp://some.ftp.site/path")
>         response.read()
> works fine and returns what is expected. This is only an issue with urllib2, vanilla urllib doesn't do it.
>
> The site I first noticed it on is private, but I can reproduce it with "ftp://ftp2.census.gov/".

Confirmed on 2.6.5 on Windows, fwiw. This is extremely weird. Possibly
it's some kind of race condition??

ChrisA

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Re: urllib2 FTP Weirdness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-24 10:58 +1100
  Re: urllib2 FTP Weirdness Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2013-01-24 01:45 +0100
    Re: urllib2 FTP Weirdness Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-01-24 04:12 +0000
      Re: urllib2 FTP Weirdness Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-02-07 10:06 +1100
        Re: urllib2 FTP Weirdness Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-07 02:43 +0000
          Re: urllib2 FTP Weirdness Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-02-08 08:49 +1100

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