From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 23:20:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Sjoerd Mullender:
X-Git-Tag: v1.6a1~1112
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3427c1f71b584884142bc764be7b4f6b3efde3da;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

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.
---

diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index c12f4519cca6..ad1e791386cc 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)