Perhaps this doesn't have bearing on it's use in avro but as I recall,
urllib2's redirect handling is braindead. IIRC, a redirected HEAD
request gets turned into a a GET; whereas there was no big obstacle in
homebrewing redirect following on top of httplib (or, wait, was that
httplib2? sigh).
On 8/25/10 5:54 PM, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
I need HTTP redirect support for the Python RPC library, so I've added it[0]
but the change required dropping httplib in favor of just using urllib2.
I'm wondering if there was any specific reason for using httplib over urllib2
in the first place?
[0] http://github.com/rtyler/avro/tree/1.3.3-redirect
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