Bug 57295

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Description of problem:
When retrieving an https web page using URLopener.open() in urllib, the
object returned is missing the protocol in its 'url' member.

Specifically, the class method open_https(), which is called from
URLopener.open(),drops the protocol.




Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
The following example is from an interactive python session:

$ python
Python 2.1.1 (#1, Aug 13 2001, 19:37:40) 
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-96)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import urllib
>>> retriever = urllib.URLopener()
>>> webpage = retriever.open('http://www.yahoo.com')
>>> print webpage.url
http://www.yahoo.com
>>> webpage = retriever.open('https://aims.parl.com')
>>> print webpage.url
//aims.parl.com
>>> 


Actual Results:  Notice that when retrieving a web page with http
protocol, the object returned has its protocol intact in its 'url' class
member.

When retrieving a page using the https protocol, the protocol is missing
in the 'url' class member.

Expected Results:  The object returned from the https web page should
have the protocol included in its 'url' class member.

Additional info:

Bug is caused in urllib module located in /usr/lib/python2.1/urllib.py.

Comparing the open_http() and open_https() URLopener class methods, you can
see the difference (and cause of bug) in the return statement that calls
addinfourl(). 

I will upload a patch to fix this.