bug #1462706: guard against host not having FQDN hostname

4eb521e5 · Georg Brandl · 31fe35bd · 4eb521e5
Commit 4eb521e5 authored Apr 02, 2006 by Georg Brandl
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--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -1130,8 +1130,11 @@ class FileHandler(BaseHandler):
    names = None
    def get_names(self):
        if FileHandler.names is None:
-            FileHandler.names = (socket.gethostbyname('localhost'),
-                                 socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()))
+            try:
+                FileHandler.names = (socket.gethostbyname('localhost'),
+                                    socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()))
+            except socket.gaierror:
+                FileHandler.names = (socket.gethostbyname('localhost'),)
        return FileHandler.names

    # not entirely sure what the rules are here