def open_ftp(self, url):
        if not isinstance(url, str):
            raise IOError, ('ftp error', 'proxy support for ftp protocol currently not implemented')
        import mimetypes, mimetools
        try:
            from cStringIO import StringIO
        except ImportError:
            from StringIO import StringIO
        host, path = splithost(url)
        if not host: raise IOError, ('ftp error', 'no host given')
        host, port = splitport(host)
        user, host = splituser(host)
        if user: user, passwd = splitpasswd(user)
        else: passwd = None
        host = unquote(host)
        user = unquote(user or '')
        passwd = unquote(passwd or '')
        host = socket.gethostbyname(host)
        if not port:
            import ftplib
            port = ftplib.FTP_PORT
        else:
            port = int(port)
        path, attrs = splitattr(path)
        path = unquote(path)
        dirs = path.split('/')
        dirs, file = dirs[:-1], dirs[-1]
        if dirs and not dirs[0]: dirs = dirs[1:]
        if dirs and not dirs[0]: dirs[0] = '/'
        key = user, host, port, '/'.join(dirs)
        # XXX thread unsafe!
        if len(self.ftpcache) > MAXFTPCACHE:
            # Prune the cache, rather arbitrarily
            for k in self.ftpcache.keys():
                if k != key:
                    v = self.ftpcache[k]
                    del self.ftpcache[k]
                    v.close()
        try:
            if not key in self.ftpcache:
                self.ftpcache[key] = \
                    ftpwrapper(user, passwd, host, port, dirs)
            if not file: type = 'D'
            else: type = 'I'
            for attr in attrs:
                attr, value = splitvalue(attr)
                if attr.lower() == 'type' and \
                   value in ('a', 'A', 'i', 'I', 'd', 'D'):
                    type = value.upper()
            (fp, retrlen) = self.ftpcache[key].retrfile(file, type)
            mtype = mimetypes.guess_type("ftp:" + url)[0]
            headers = ""
            if mtype:
                headers += "Content-Type: %s\n" % mtype
            if retrlen is not None and retrlen >= 0:
                headers += "Content-Length: %d\n" % retrlen
            headers = mimetools.Message(StringIO(headers))
            return addinfourl(fp, headers, "ftp:" + url)
        except ftperrors(), msg:
            raise IOError, ('ftp error', msg), sys.exc_info()[2]
Use FTP protocol.
dataset/ETHPy150Open ofermend/medicare-demo/socialite/jython/Lib/urllib.py/URLopener.open_ftp