I am doing a POST to a webserver and get a 302 Found response (redirect). urllib2's default behaviour is to do a GET on the new url from the Location: URI in the 302 response.
This is different from what I have found with LWP::UserAgent- >request() in perl. After much searching I understand there is a view that automatic redirection for a 302 in response to a POST is not in conformance to the relevant RFCs. Therefore, I believe urllib2's behaviour appears to be non-conformant (as, I believe are many browsers). Now, regardless of what is the "correct" approach to handling the 302, there is some information in the returned html of the 302 which I am losing because of the subsequent GET. I tried to raise a HTTPError from redirect_request() but that just kills the connection with the server. I tried returning None, same result. Can someone point me to how I can get the default LWP:UserAgent behaviour of handling this scenario using urllib2? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
