RE: [A-a-p-user] A-A-P and proxy

[<coe...@cm...>]

> This very much looks like an error in the Python urllib module.  For
> open_http() there is a check whether "url" is an ordinary string or a
> tuple.  This check is missing from open_ftp().  This probably 
> means that
> FTP proxies are not supported yet.  But they should not cause a crash
> because you set the "ftp_proxy" environment variable!
> 
> I think you have enough info to file a bug report to the Python bug
> tracker.  The essential statements  are in URLopener.open():
> 
>         url = (host, fullurl) # Signal special case to open_*()
> 
> Hmm, this bug report appears to be for the same item:
> 
> 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2002-March/0
> 10599.html

Apparently you already added a comment to that report, assuming you are "vimboss" :-) , so I don't think I can add much there.

> I'm afraid I can't fix this in A-A-P (without replacing urllib).

I think that I will do just that: upgrade to Python 2.2. and see if that helps. Apparently Python 2.2. does not have this problem, as David Medberry wrote about the bug: "This is _NOT_ a bug under Linux Python 2.2--it works just fine there."

I'm not running AAP on windows (I'm on SunOS 5.7), so I think the Python release is the relevant difference.

> There are ftp-to-http sites (can't find a URL right now...).
> You can even use a site that does ftp downloads by e-mail!

I'll do some Googling and see if I can find one.


Thanks,

Coen