[issue2193] Cookie Colon Name Bug

2011-01-30 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: I agree with And Clover that Carsten Klein's comments in #msg127366 are not correct, for the reason that And stated. Also, Carsten repeats again the idea that the trac issue is about the trac server failing to generate appropriate cookies -- but that issu

[issue2193] Cookie Colon Name Bug

2011-01-05 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Yes, interoperability is good. Do you have a specific concern about the change that I proposed? If not, and you're instead just trying to ensure conformance, by all means read the draft specification that you pointed out and look for reasons why my sugg

[issue2193] Cookie Colon Name Bug

2011-01-05 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Yes, interoperability is good. Do you have a specific concern about the change that I proposed? If not, and you're instead just trying to ensure conformance, by all means read the draft specification that you pointed out and look for reasons why my sugg

[issue2193] Cookie Colon Name Bug

2011-01-05 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Again, I don't think this is relevant, because the bug is about servers parsing Cookie: headers. Note that that string (the value of the Cookie: header) may be generated by a different server than the server that parses it (see the trac example mentioned i

[issue2193] Cookie Colon Name Bug

2011-01-05 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: karl: I'm not clear precisely what it is that you want to draw our attention to. Note this bug is about parsing of Cookie headers by servers, not production of Set-Cookie headers by servers. -- ___ Python tr

[issue1520831] urrlib2 max_redirections=0 disables redirects

2010-11-20 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Oops, I hadn't noticed that max_redirections isn't part of the API. In that case, I agree that it's not strictly a bug. I'd also agree it's not very important. FWIW: "want[ing] to see all redirects" is not the same thing as p

[issue1520831] urrlib2 max_redirections=0 disables redirects

2010-11-15 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: That's silly. A justification of the need for a new feature isn't needed, because this is already-implemented feature that simply does the wrong thing at the edge case. It's not high priority,

[issue1520831] urrlib2 max_redirections=0 disables redirects

2010-11-13 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Why not? -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1520831> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue2193] Cookie Colon Name Bug

2010-10-19 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: dstanek> Would it be better to file bugs against buggy implementations instead of changing Python's implementation to be more lenient? No. Another app running on the same domain that knows nothing about RFC 2109 (and why should it?) shouldn'

[issue2193] Cookie Colon Name Bug

2010-09-21 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Looks like a bug. Here's the trac bug that this caused -- trac fixed their bug by working around this bug in a really ugly way: http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/2256 It would be nice to notify the trac developers if/when this is fixed. This bug is probabl

[issue1660009] continuing problem with httplib multiple set-cookie headers

2010-09-21 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: What I said in 2007 re commas could be well out of date (might well have been so even then, in fact). Somebody should check what browsers do now... -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1660

[issue3704] cookielib doesn't handle URLs with / in parameters

2010-07-20 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Hmm, I never tested with Python 3, though I assume the forward-port was straightforward. The patch was created against (2.x) trunk, so indeed it should be committed there also. Deselecting 2.6 since I assume no more maintenance backports will be made to 2.6

[issue3704] cookielib doesn't handle URLs with / in parameters

2010-07-19 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: My patch should be applied. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue3704> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsub

[issue2190] MozillaCookieJar ignore HttpOnly cookies

2010-07-12 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Is deprecation really necessary? lynx still uses that format. lynx doesn't write the header that MozillaCookieJar insists on being present, but a trivial subclass can read cookies files written by

[issue2277] MozillaCookieJar does not support Firefox3 cookie files

2010-07-12 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: There is code in PyPI project mechanize that implements this feature. That code is marked experimental though, due to lack of testing. -- nosy: +jjlee ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue2

[issue8975] Bug in cookiejar

2010-07-12 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: This is a duplicate of issue3924 -- nosy: +jjlee ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue8975> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list m

[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

2010-07-10 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Suggest removing the comment that Terry refers to. That referenced MSIE code doesn't have an automated test, I've no idea whether it still works on modern Windows OSes, mechanize no longer supports use with urllib2, and I don't think that

[issue3704] cookielib doesn't handle URLs with / in parameters

2010-05-11 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: What specific breakage do you expect resulting from my patch being backported? There is no behaviour change here, except to the minimal extent that all bug fixes involve behaviour change. This seems a clear-cut backport candidate. It's not a surprise to me

[issue3704] cookielib doesn't handle URLs with / in parameters

2010-05-10 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: FWIW, the "certain semantics" that request_path "promises" are 1. that it returns the RFC 2965 request-URI (which has never been true -- it returns the path component of the request-URI instead) and 2. that that request-URI is as defined i

[issue3704] cookielib doesn't handle URLs with / in parameters

2010-05-10 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Didn't bother changing docstring to comment, since that would be inconsistent with rest of module. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue3704] cookielib doesn't handle URLs with / in parameters

2010-05-10 Thread John J Lee
Changes by John J Lee : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17285/issue3704.patch ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue3704> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailin

[issue3704] cookielib doesn't handle URLs with / in parameters

2010-05-10 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Just re-read your comment, Tres. Since when do docstrings determine whether a stdlib function is public? If it's documented in the docs, it's public. If not, it's not. This function isn't, so it's not public. It'

[issue3704] cookielib doesn't handle URLs with / in parameters

2010-05-10 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: I'll upload a patch when I'm back home (bugs.python.org went down yesterday). Will turn docstring into comment. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.

[issue5537] LWPCookieJar cannot handle cookies with expirations of 2038 or greater on 32-bit platforms

2010-05-09 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Shouldn't module time be changed to use a cross-platform implementation that uses a 64 bit time_t-like type? Apparently Perl 6 has made the equivalent change. Admittedly there seems to be no sign of that actually happening. -- nosy: +

[issue6588] insert cookies into cookie jar - cookielib.py

2010-05-09 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Jon, If you want to get these changes applied you need to: 1. Split up these three separate issues 2. Most important: explain in full detail exactly how you used cookielib, what you expected it to do, and what it actually did, and then justify why your

[issue3704] cookielib doesn't handle URLs with / in parameters

2010-05-09 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: It looks to me that it's just request_path that's wrong, so no need to add extra arguments to that function. It should discard the query and fragment (still keeping the "parameters" -- using urlparse.urlsplit instead of urlparse.urlparse wou

[issue1755841] Patch for [ 735515 ] urllib2 should cache 301 redir

2010-01-05 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: > Yes,it currently does not handle chained redirects via cache. I dont know > RFC's stance on it. RFC does not say anything about 301 chained redirects I don't see anything in the RFC that prevents us caching chained 301 redirections. Cac

[issue1755841] Patch for [ 735515 ] urllib2 should cache 301 redir

2010-01-05 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: To make sure I understood something Antoine said: By "per-request", I assume you mean the same kind of thing as the current use of .redirect_dict -- the multiple urllib2.Request instances that may result from a single request passed by the use

[issue1424148] urllib.FancyURLopener.redirect_internal looses data on POST!

2009-08-15 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: If you have a feature request, please open a separate ticket. This one is about an alleged bug. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1424

[issue1424148] urllib.FancyURLopener.redirect_internal looses data on POST!

2009-08-14 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: This issue is not a bug, and should be closed. It was discussed at length many years ago (different bug tracker ticket), and resolved. Since then the same issue seems to come up every year or so, apparently raised by people who haven't checked the

[issue991266] Cookie.py does not correctly quote Morsels

2009-02-13 Thread John J Lee
Changes by John J Lee : -- nosy: -jjlee ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue991266> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue1172011] BaseCookie does not call value_decode

2009-02-13 Thread John J Lee
Changes by John J Lee : -- nosy: -jjlee ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1172011> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue1372650] Cookie and multiple names

2009-02-13 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: A patch for this bug is attached to issue1375011. ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1372650> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailin

[issue918368] urllib doesn't correct server returned urls

2009-02-12 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Uh, that should have beeen something like .open("spam://example.com/%2E/") of course. ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.or

[issue918368] urllib doesn't correct server returned urls

2009-02-12 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: A suitable test would be to derive a urllib.URLOpener subclass that has an open_spam(url) method which records the URL. Then call .open("spam://") in the test and verify that the URL has been quoted. ___ Python trac

[issue918368] urllib doesn't correct server returned urls

2009-02-12 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Mike's list is missing one more character, "%" itself. So, the replacement should be: quote(newurl, safe="%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]") The replacement should be done in the .open() method, not

[issue1153027] http_error_302() crashes with 'HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

2009-02-09 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: This bug refers to urllib2. Issue 918368 refers to urllib. It's the same problem in each case, though. ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue918368] urllib doesn't correct server returned urls

2009-02-09 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: This bug refers to urllib. Issue 1153027 refers to urllib2. It's the same problem in each case, though. -- nosy: +jjlee ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/iss

[issue1660009] continuing problem with httplib multiple set-cookie headers

2009-02-09 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee added the comment: Why? ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue1660009> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/m

[issue1401] urllib2 302 POST

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I think this was actually not a bug, and the fix should not have been applied. I guess this comment is just "for the record", as the fix is probably cruft that can't be removed now, since people will have started relying

[issue4496] misleading comment in urllib2

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
Changes by John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- components: +Library (Lib) nosy: +facundobatista versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.0 ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.pytho

[issue4496] misleading comment in urllib2

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
New submission from John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: r54137 replaced a comment in urllib2.py with a misleading comment. The comment now implies the .insort() in question achieves the goal specified in the new comment. That's not true, which was the reason the original comment was t

[issue2464] urllib2 can't handle http://www.wikispaces.com

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I've raised #4493 about the issue I raised in my previous comment. ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.

[issue4493] urllib2 doesn't always supply / where URI path component is empty

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
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 eq

[issue4079] new urllib2.Request 'timeout' attribute needs to have a default

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
Changes by John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- nosy: +facundobatista ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4079> ___ __

[issue4079] new urllib2.Request 'timeout' attribute needs to have a default

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: This bug was known before the release -- unfortunately the original author of the patch didn't fix them in time. This and some other unresolved issues listed are listed on #2451. "Somebody" should raise bugs about the rest

[issue1772481] urllib2 hangs with some documents.

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Please close: this is already fixed on trunk and release25-maint (r60747, issue #1966) (and on release26-maint, which was branched after the fix). -- nosy: +jjlee ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL

[issue1411097] httplib patch to make _read_chunked() more robust

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: For the record, I think my worry in msg49366 was a non-issue: the only time .readline() will return "" is when the connection has closed (so I think the fix that eventually applied is correct). __

[issue900744] catch invalid chunk length in httplib read routine

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: The fix for this doesn't actually close the connection as the comment in the fix claims -- I've raised #4492 to track that. -- nosy: +jjlee ___ Python tracker <[EMAI

[issue4492] httplib code thinks it closes connection, but does not

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
New submission from John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The fix for #900744 tried to close the connection when a bad chunk length was received. The comment inserted with that fix "close the connection as protocol synchronisation is probably lost" is incorrect: self.close() in _read_

[issue1123695] attempting to use urllib2 on some URLs fails starting on 2.4

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Can somebody close this? It's fixed on trunk in #900744 . ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.pyt

[issue1537445] urllib2 httplib _read_chunked timeout

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: urlopen() raises URLError, .read() may raise other errors. I don't think that's a bug in itself, though no doubt: 1. The documentation of exceptions raised could and should be improved 2. The exceptions that can be raised

[issue1205] urllib fail to read URL contents, urllib2 crash Python

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: This is fixed in trunk r61034 by issue #900744 . Please use that issue for any discussion re whether this should be fixed in 2.5. -- nosy: +jjlee ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[issue3819] urllib2 sends Basic auth across redirects

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I agree this is a bug. Senthil -- re "1)", the paragraph you refer to (quoted by the OP) is relevant. The fact that it doesn't specifically mention redirection is not relevant. Re "2)": I don't know how dige

[issue2464] urllib2 can't handle http://www.wikispaces.com

2008-12-02 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: This fix was applied in the wrong place. URI path components, and HTTP URI path components in particular, *can* be empty. See RFC 3986. So the comment in the code that was inserted with the fix for this bug that says "possibly ma

[issue3924] cookielib chokes on non-integer cookie version, should ignore it instead

2008-10-25 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: The bug is present on trunk and on the py3k branch, so I've selected versions "Python 2.7" and "Python 3.0" This is a straightforward bug, so I selected 2.5.3 and 2.6 also, to indicate this is a candidate for b

[issue3924] cookielib chokes on non-integer cookie version, should ignore it instead

2008-10-25 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Patch with tests attached. The patch is slightly different to my first suggestion: in the patch, invalid version values cause the cookie to be ignored (but double quotes around valid versions are fine). -- keywords: +patch Adde

[issue2756] urllib2 add_header fails with existing unredirected_header

2008-10-25 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I agree there is a bug here: clearly the methods on the Request class are inconsistent with AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() . I think Facundo's patch is good, though it needs a test. The general principle when fixing earlier bugs ha

[issue2275] urllib2 header capitalization

2008-10-25 Thread John J Lee
Changes by John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11887/issue2775-problems.patch ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.pytho

[issue2275] urllib2 header capitalization

2008-10-25 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I have attached a patch that just: * Improves doctests a bit * Changes .get_headers() and .has_header() to be case-insensitive * Documents .get_header() and .header_items(), fixes some incorrectly-documented argument names, and notes th

[issue3647] urlparse - relative url parsing and joins to be RFC3986 compliance

2008-10-16 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Hmm, I see you've already commented on some of those, Senthil. Perhaps you could add a comment to this bug explaining how your patch relates to the others. Should it replace them? (why?) Should one of those patches be applied also

[issue3647] urlparse - relative url parsing and joins to be RFC3986 compliance

2008-10-16 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Here they are: http://bugs.python.org/issue1500504 http://bugs.python.org/issue1462525 http://bugs.python.org/issue1591035 ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.pytho

[issue3647] urlparse - relative url parsing and joins to be RFC3986 compliance

2008-10-16 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: There are a bunch of other candidate implementations of this RFC kicking around, I think. Also, I believe there was agreement on python-dev that a new module should be added rather than changing the behaviour of module urlparse. -

[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

2008-10-16 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Forgot to add: if somebody else does the work, I'm happy to agree to the code being used in Python stdlib. Perhaps it would be necessary to get the author of the original Perl code from which this MSIE class is derived to sign a

[issue3924] cookielib chokes on non-integer cookie version, should ignore it instead

2008-10-15 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: The sensible fix for this is to strip the quotes off, defaulting to version 0 on failure to parse the version cookie-attribute. It's not necessary to retain the original version string. By the way, what you posted warning rather than

[issue3704] cookielib doesn't handle URLs with / in parameters

2008-10-15 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Do we have an RFC 3986 URI parser in the stdlib now? It would be better to use that if so, but I don't see one. Failing that, an implementation of the relevant part of that RFC is only about four lines of code, so that would be

[issue4131] Note that Firefox 3 does not write cookies.txt

2008-10-15 Thread John J Lee
New submission from John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Just adds a note to the cookielib documentation to point out that Firefox 3 no longer writes cookies.txt, the file format understood by cookielib.MozillaCookieJar (firefox now maintains persistent cookie state in an sqlite da

[issue2190] MozillaCookieJar ignore HttpOnly cookies

2008-10-15 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I think firefox 3 no longer writes cookies.txt (it writes cookies.sqlite instead). Can anybody point out a version of firefox that wrote this HttpOnly information to cookies.txt, so the patch can be

[issue1570255] redirected cookies

2008-10-15 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Sorry I turned up rather late here (is there a way to subscribe to changes to all bugs whose comments or title contain a given string?) If it works with Firefox and not with cookielib it's almost certainly a bug. However, it's

[issue2007] cookielib lacks FileCookieJar class for Internet Explorer

2008-10-15 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Note that the code on wwwsearch.sf.net only reads cookies, and does not write them. Also, the approach used is fragile to changes to MS's "index.dat" database, which was the reason why that code was not included when cookiel

[issue1028088] Cookies without values are silently ignored (by design?)

2008-10-10 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: The Cookie: header does not have a "secure flag" (The Set-Cookie: header does). I don't strongly object to the issue identified in the original comment being fixed. ___ Python trac

[issue1028088] Cookies without values are silently ignored (by design?)

2008-10-10 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I was responding to your comment of 2008-10-08 03:08, not to the opening comment. I already responded to the opening comment. ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.o

[issue1028088] Cookies without values are silently ignored (by design?)

2008-10-09 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: You haven't said what the specific problem is. Note that the SimpleCookie class really represents a set of cookies, and the Morsel class represents a single cookie. It seems that setting special value-less cookie-attributes like &qu

[issue2190] MozillaCookieJar ignore HttpOnly cookies

2008-10-09 Thread John J Lee
Changes by John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- nosy: +jjlee ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2190> ___ ___ Python-bugs

[issue3858] make install tries to install files outside of --prefix

2008-09-13 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: OK, this was because I had a .pydistutils.cfg file containing the following (ironically, put there following somebody's recipe for installing setuptools packages using stow): [install] install_lib=~/lib/python$py_version_short/si

[issue3858] make install tries to install files outside of --prefix

2008-09-13 Thread John J Lee
New submission from John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ./configure --prefix=DIR && make && make install tries to install files in directories outside of DIR. This happens both with trunk (r66412) and 2.6b3. This is a problem for users of GNU stow, for example. I know that

[issue3577] Interpreter name: python vs. python-3.0

2008-08-17 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: "make install" actually installs as "python3.0" (and not as "python-3.0", nor "python3", nor "python"). ___ Python track

[issue3577] Interpreter name: python vs. python-3.0

2008-08-17 Thread John J Lee
New submission from John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The tutorial says: "The Python interpreter is usually installed as /usr/local/bin/python on those machines where it is available" Shouldn't that be "python3" or "python-3.0"? And the same throughou

[issue2275] urllib2 header capitalization

2008-08-12 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: By the way, this is a feature addition, not a bug fix. The first beta releases for 2.6 and 3.0 came out some time ago, so according to PEP 361, this change should not be committed to trunk until after the 2.6 / 3.0 maintenance branches hav

[issue2275] urllib2 header capitalization

2008-08-12 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: The CaseInsensitive dict class fails to preserve its invariants (implied invariants, since there are no tests for it). There are also problems with the documentation in the patch. I will submit a modified patch, I hope later thi

[issue2275] urllib2 header capitalization

2008-07-22 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Of course, that "along the lines of" suggestion isn't quite right: None does not have a .title() method. (and, to spell it out, I'm assuming in that suggestion that .headers is the dict of headers with .capitalize()d

[issue2275] urllib2 header capitalization

2008-07-22 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > With respect to point 1), I assume that we all agree upon that headers > should stored in Titled-Format instead of Capitalized-format. I would probably choose to store the headers in Capitalized-form, because that makes implement

[issue2275] urllib2 header capitalization

2008-07-11 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Just to quickly note that by "providing case-insensitive lookup" I don't necessarily mean via .headers. But it's you who's providing the patch, so I'll wait for your next suggestion rather than

[issue2275] urllib2 header capitalization

2008-07-11 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > > * The patch to the docs seems to muddy the waters even further (than the > > current slightly murky state) about whether and why .headers is to be > > preferred over the methods, or vice-versa. I think .headers should

[issue2275] urllib2 header capitalization

2008-07-11 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: There already is a test for the breakage, but the patch changes the expected output to match the new return value of .header_items(): -[('Foo-bar', 'baz'), ('Spam-eggs', 'blah')] +[('

[issue2275] urllib2 header capitalization

2008-07-10 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: * The patch looks like it will break code that uses .header_items(), which is not acceptable. * The patch to the docs seems to muddy the waters even further (than the current slightly murky state) about whether and why .headers is

[issue2451] No way to disable socket timeouts in httplib, etc.

2008-04-25 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Facundo, are you going to review this? __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2451> __ ___ Python

[issue2451] No way to disable socket timeouts in httplib, etc.

2008-03-30 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Me: """ This should be done in such a way as to also fix the lack of documentation of the None special value in the protocol modules documentation (httplib, etc.). I should have fixed that as part of this patch, but ran

[issue2451] No way to disable socket timeouts in httplib, etc.

2008-03-30 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Should I also have selected "Python 3.0" from the "Versions" list, BTW? Don't know what the proper process is ATM... __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[issue2451] No way to disable socket timeouts in httplib, etc.

2008-03-30 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I've attached a patch. My patch introduces one minor issue: it's an inconvenience when wrapping objects if special default values like socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT are not public. However, I think it's not worth maki

[issue2275] urllib2 header capitalization

2008-03-30 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: urllib2.Request.headers is, in practice, an undocumented public interface. Did you run the tests? There is room for improvement here, but not in the way you suggest. python[1]$ python2.6 iPython 2.6a1+ (trunk:62045M, Mar 30 2008, 03

[issue2275] urllib2 header capitalization

2008-03-30 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Specifically, these improvements could be made: * the headers actually sent to httplib could be normalized to Standard-Http-Case by urllib2 * the urllib2.Request.headers interface could support case-insensitive key

[issue2451] No way to disable socket timeouts in httplib, etc.

2008-03-27 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Great. I'll try to submit a patch this weekend. __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2451> __

[issue2450] urllib2.Request constructor has no timeout parameter

2008-03-21 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I don't buy the "API complication" argument. I might accept an argument that the timeout isn't really anything to do with the request, so I won't bother to continue with this bug report. ___

[issue2450] urllib2.Request constructor has no timeout parameter

2008-03-21 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: This should be solved by introducing a "not set" value other than None. __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://

[issue2451] No way to disable socket timeouts in httplib, etc.

2008-03-21 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I see this thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/552292 But I don't see an explanation of this API decision there that I understand. *Because* socket.setdefaulttimeout() is a hack for when nothing else is avail

[issue2452] inaccuracy in httplib timeout documentation

2008-03-21 Thread John J Lee
John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Oops, un-finished sentence in my opening comment ("In fact, other non-blocking.") should have read: In fact, other blocking operations will also time out. __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

[issue2452] inaccuracy in httplib timeout documentation

2008-03-21 Thread John J Lee
New submission from John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The documentation for the new timeout support in 2.6 states that "If the optional timeout parameter is given, connection attempts will timeout after that many seconds". In fact, other non-blocking. The only operation that

[issue2451] No way to disable socket timeouts in httplib, etc.

2008-03-21 Thread John J Lee
New submission from John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The new timeout support in 2.6 makes use of new function socket.create_connection(). socket.create_connection() provides no way to disable timeouts, other than by relying on socket.getdefaulttimeout() returning None. This is unfor

[issue2450] urllib2.Request constructor has no timeout parameter

2008-03-21 Thread John J Lee
New submission from John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: r55792 added timeout support to urllib2. A timeout parameter was added to urllib2.OpenerDirector.open(), but there is no corresponding Request constructor parameter. timeout is unique in that respect. Instead, OpenerDirector.open(

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