urllib2.open failed to access a url when a perent directory of the url is permission denied.

I had a file in a ftp, the address is like ftp://host/home/work/123.txt which can be access by wget.
When I urllib2.open to access the file, it always tell me that:
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error ftp error: 550 home: No such file or directory>

I found that the path /home is denied for anonymouse access but the path /home/work is not. 
urllib2.open try to call ftp.cwd("home") and then ftp.cwd("work") which failed when ftp.cwd("home").

I tried to fix this by changing "for dir in self.dirs: self.ftp.cwd(dir)" to "self.ftp.cwd(os.path.join(*self.dirs)" in urllib.py. And it works fine for this situation.

Did you run the urllib test module after your code change?
Have you tried 3.3?

I had run test by python ./urllib.py -t, test steps for accessing /etc/passwd, file:/etc/passwd, file://localhost/etc/passwd passed, steps for ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/README not tested because my work env is not free for internet accessing.

And, I have not tried version 3.3.

Hello zhaoqifa, 

Your suggestion for the solution looks good to me. Instead of cd-ing to each dir, you cd to target dir when ftp url is accessed.

Two things to consider.

1) Will the above change have any security implications. It does not seem to me. But I did not write that code originally that way either.

2) On Ubuntu, I am unable to setup a directory based (ACL'ed) anonymous ftp server. The option is either anonymous from ftp root (/) which will map to my operating system folder (/srv/ftp) or non-anonymous. I wonder how your server is configured to allow anonymous from a particular point onwards.

Sorry for replying so late.
"1) Will the above change have any security implications."
---It does not seem to me either.

"2) On Ubuntu, I am unable to setup a directory based (ACL'ed) anonymous ftp server. The option is either anonymous from ftp root (/) which will map to my operating system folder (/srv/ftp) or non-anonymous. I wonder how your server is configured to allow anonymous from a particular point onwards."
---I configured proftpd like this:
<Limit WRITE DIRS>
    DenyAll
</Limit>
<Directory /home/*>
        <Limit DIRS LIST NLIST>
        AllowAll
        </Limit>
</Directory>
And get message as bellow when login anonymous:
lftp perf00:~> cd /home
cd: Access failed: 550 /home: No such file or directory
lftp perf00:~> cd /home/work
cd ok, cwd=/home/work
lftp perf00:/home/work> cd /home/work/test
cd ok, cwd=/home/work/test
lftp perf00:/home/work/test> ls
drwxrwxr-x   8 work     work         4096 Jun 15  2011 pb

New changeset 0a544bb539e6 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '2.7':
Fix #17967: For ftp urls CWD to target instead of hopping to each directory
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0a544bb539e6

New changeset dbfbdf2b5c19 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '3.3':
Fix #17967: For ftp urls CWD to target instead of hopping to each directory
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/dbfbdf2b5c19

New changeset c1101f0d6c29 by Senthil Kumaran in branch 'default':
merge from 3.3
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c1101f0d6c29

Thanks Zhaoqifa for steps to configure the ftp with acl. I could reproduce it manually and fix it by changes to the urllib.request code.
Unfortunately, we dont have rigorous tests for ftp handling in urllib module. That's noted in test_urllib2net module too.

This bug is fixed in all branches.

Reopening: This change is seeing problems with Windows Buildbot
http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20XP-4%203.x/builds/8643/steps/test/logs/stdio

New changeset e9d0fb934b46 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '2.7':
Fix #17967 - Fix related to regression on Windows.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e9d0fb934b46

New changeset f5906026a7e9 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '3.3':
Fix #17967 - Fix related to regression on Windows.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f5906026a7e9

New changeset adfec512fb32 by Senthil Kumaran in branch 'default':
merge from 3.3
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/adfec512fb32