Patches by Michael Reilly to correctly deal with ftp URLs of the form

ftp://user@host//root/path: the double slash in the pathname means to
go to the root directory even if the initial directory isn't the root.

diff --git a/Lib/ftplib.py b/Lib/ftplib.py
index d2ff435700423950ea9f394940302eb9d5d98093..eee8e5a82650b47614edcefdfed25a5d1f24d367 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/ftplib.py
+++ b/Lib/ftplib.py
@@ -437,6 +437,8 @@ class FTP:
                        except error_perm, msg:
                                if msg[:3] != '500':
                                        raise error_perm, msg
+               elif dirname == '':
+                       dirname = '.'  # does nothing, but could return error
                cmd = 'CWD ' + dirname
                return self.voidcmd(cmd)