Perhaps related to the discussion of denial-of-service vulnerabilities is the matter of controlling access to remote resources. I suppose that after the following bug was closed, no improvements were made to the standard library:
http://bugs.python.org/issue2124 Do Python programs still visit the W3C site millions of times every day to download DTDs that they are not, by default, able to remember from their last visit? Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
