New submission from John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: As required by RFC 2616 section 3.2.2, for all HTTP requests sent by urllib2, the path component of the URI should be normalized to "/" before the Request-URI derived from it gets passed to httplib (or something functionally equivalent to that). This was fixed in one case in #2464, but the fix is in the wrong place, since it's a general problem not specific to redirects. See the longer discussion here:
http://bugs.python.org/msg76736 (hmm, let's see if I can just say msg76736 and get a hyperlink) Example: import urllib2 urllib2.urlopen("http://python.org?spam";) Expect: sends "/?spam" in request line. Got: sends "?spam" in request line. Probably should be fixed by making Request.get_selector() return the normalized URI reference (with the slash always present). When fixing, remember that the Request-URI of RFC 2616 (returned by .get_selector()) is sometimes a relative reference, and sometimes a URI (in RFC 3986's terminology). ---------- messages: 76777 nosy: jjlee severity: normal status: open title: urllib2 doesn't always supply / where URI path component is empty _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4493> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
