Index: Misc/NEWS
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--- Misc/NEWS	(revisión: 60873)
+++ Misc/NEWS	(copia de trabajo)
@@ -414,6 +414,8 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double slash.
+
 - ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
   pickled.
 
Index: Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py
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--- Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py	(revisión: 60873)
+++ Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py	(copia de trabajo)
@@ -146,7 +146,8 @@
 
         """
         # abandon query parameters
-        path = urlparse.urlparse(path)[2]
+        path = path.split('?',1)[0]
+        path = path.split('#',1)[0]
         path = posixpath.normpath(urllib.unquote(path))
         words = path.split('/')
         words = filter(None, words)
Index: Lib/test/test_SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.py
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--- Lib/test/test_SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.py	(revisión: 0)
+++ Lib/test/test_SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.py	(revisión: 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+"""
+These tests only check url parsing for now.
+We don't want to require the 'network' resource.
+"""
+
+import os, unittest
+from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
+from test import test_support
+
+
+class SocketlessRequestHandler (SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
+    def __init__(self):
+        pass
+
+class SimpleHTTPRequestHandlerTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+    """ Test url parsing """
+    def setUp (self):
+        self.translated = os.getcwd()
+        self.translated = os.path.join(self.translated, 'filename')
+        self.handler = SocketlessRequestHandler ()
+
+    def test_queryArguments (self):
+        path = self.handler.translate_path ('/filename')
+        self.assertEquals (path, self.translated)
+        path = self.handler.translate_path ('/filename?foo=bar')
+        self.assertEquals (path, self.translated)
+        path = self.handler.translate_path ('/filename?a=b&spam=eggs#zot')
+        self.assertEquals (path, self.translated)
+
+    def test_startWithDoubleSlash (self):
+        path = self.handler.translate_path ('//filename')
+        self.assertEquals (path, self.translated)
+        path = self.handler.translate_path ('//filename?foo=bar')
+        self.assertEquals (path, self.translated)
+        
+
+def test_main():
+    test_support.run_unittest(SimpleHTTPRequestHandlerTestCase)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    test_main()