Jeremy Thurgood <fir...@gmail.com> added the comment: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:37, Senthil Kumaran <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > Now, what happens when you type "http://bugs.python.org?10231"; [1] in > your browser? According to this bug report, the server should 301 > redirect it to "http://bugs.python.org/?10231";. If you try this, this > does not happen. The browser (client) is in fact, changing it to the > corrected URL (because the original is invalid) and the server is just > ignoring the so called query portion).
I see your point now, but I don't agree with it completely. It seems reasonable to allow query parameters to specify things like sort order for a directory listing or have a fragment to focus the browser on a particular entry. On the other hand, if we don't want to support the redirect with a fragment or query parameters, we should instead return a 400 response. I can't see any situation in which redirecting "/something?foo" to "/something?foo/" is the correct behaviour. > If you use, urllib2 to request the above [1], you will find that it > will fail with 401 error. A 401 is "Unauthorized", which means the server is asking for authentication -- I don't think that's relevant here. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10231> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
