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diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index 09ce8c57e8..b835f52f23 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -643,10 +643,11 @@ class FancyURLopener(URLopener):
newurl = basejoin(self.type + ":" + url, newurl)
# For security reasons we do not allow redirects to protocols
- # other than HTTP or HTTPS.
+ # other than HTTP, HTTPS or FTP.
newurl_lower = newurl.lower()
if not (newurl_lower.startswith('http://') or
- newurl_lower.startswith('https://')):
+ newurl_lower.startswith('https://') or
+ newurl_lower.startswith('ftp://')):
return
void = fp.read()