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Old Mar 17th, 2007, 3:20 PM   #3
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Can downloading textual content lead to any client-side side-effects?
You need to be careful about paths. Use os.path.join and os.path.basename etc. to make sure that the user doesn't enter in something like "../../somecoresystemfile".

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Finally, can malicious code be pushed into urllib2.Request, such as the problem with eval with input?
Probably not.
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