In core master (not 2.0), reflinks has been converted to using
requests instead of urllib2/httplib.
The change is
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/264251/ , by a GCI participant.
As requests does not support FTP, reflinks no longer supports FTP links.
A new task has been created to investigate FTP support:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124007
There was also a minor performance regression. Where previously only
the first 1Mb of a URL was fetched, now the entire resource is
fetched.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124138
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John Vandenberg