[issue7445] urllib2 (and urllib) should raise error for incomplete response

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: This is working as designed. -- resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue7445] urllib2 (and urllib) should raise error for incomplete response

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: urllib and urllib2, by definition, returns a file-like object which provides a variety of facilities, most common one being a reading the object to get the content. What you are asking for is, to read the content, verify if it matches the Content-Length header

[issue7445] urllib2 (and urllib) should raise error for incomplete response

New submission from Chris Lasher : This question is motivated by a question on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1824069/urllib2-not-retrieving-entire-http-response In the event the user receives an incomplete response when using urllib2 (and urllib), the library should raise an