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/";.
I've tested the equivalent code on Python 3.2.3 and get the same results,
except that one time I got a socket error (may have been a spurious network
blip, though).
I'm at a loss as to how that could even work differently. My only guess is that
by not having a reference to the addinfourl response object, something
important is getting garbage collected or closed... that seems like a stretch,
though. Is this a urllib2 bug, or am I crazy?
-Nick Cash
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