Add a "source_address" option to ftplib

[giampaolo]

BPO	8594
Nosy	@pitrou, @giampaolo, @bitdancer
Files	ftplib_source_address.patch ftplib_source_address.patch test_ftplib-leak.diff

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title = 'Add a "source_address" option to ftplib'
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[giampaolo]

Similarly to bpo-3972 the patch in attachment adds a new "source_address" option to FTP class to bind to a specific address when connecting to a remote FTP server.

It must be noted that this gets done for both control and passive data connections (client connecting to server). The latter one solves bpo-1661754.

[pitrou]

You should not use find_unused_port(), because it causes problems on some Windows buildbot. Also, there's something fishy in your patch, because you never set self.source_address.

[giampaolo]

You should not use find_unused_port()

I agree find_unused_port() is the wrong approach in general, but in this case I think there's nothing we can do about it.

you never set self.source_address.

You're right, I should set it in connect() method.
I'm going to attach a new patch including documentation.

[giampaolo]

Patch in attachment set source_address attribute and updates doc.
It still keeps using support.find_unused_port() which is also used in test_socket.py though [1], so it shouldn't cause problems.

http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_socket.py?r1=77263&r2=77262&pathrev=77263

[giampaolo]

Committed in r88679.

[nadeemvawda]

test_source_address_passive_connection() raises a ResourceWarning. Fix attached.

[giampaolo]

Thanks. Committed in r88761.

[pitrou]

Giampaolo, can you make your commit on the Mercurial repo instead?

See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/108738.html