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| author | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2013-06-01 11:12:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2013-06-01 11:12:52 -0700 |
| commit | 88249b80d7f374401e61fee4e08e446b03bb613d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ba52bb9156ec4139cf1cd1fe3abbee29f9783ff | |
| parent | edf33c0145c394694bbcb44a2aaedea0816b9b9e (diff) | |
| parent | dcdadfe39afd9b7cddf1e20efa37babdad61ff77 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-88249b80d7f374401e61fee4e08e446b03bb613d.tar.gz | |
merge from 3.3
Fix thishost helper funtion in urllib. Returns the ipaddress of localhost when
hostname is resolvable by socket.gethostname for local machine. This all fixes
certain freebsd builtbot failures.
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/urllib/request.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py index 1de6aaeb78..84f177c6eb 100644 --- a/Lib/urllib/request.py +++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py @@ -2259,7 +2259,10 @@ def thishost(): """Return the IP addresses of the current host.""" global _thishost if _thishost is None: - _thishost = tuple(socket.gethostbyname_ex(socket.gethostname())[2]) + try: + _thishost = tuple(socket.gethostbyname_ex(socket.gethostname())[2]) + except socket.gaierror: + _thishost = tuple(socket.gethostbyname_ex('localhost')[2]) return _thishost _ftperrors = None |