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Title: Urllib2.urlopen() raises OSError w/bad HTTP Location header
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Components: Extension Modules Versions: Python 2.5
process
Status: closed Resolution: fixed
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: georg.brandl, jseutter, nikitathespider
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2006-11-07 03:08 by nikitathespider, last changed 2007-03-13 08:15 by georg.brandl.

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msg30472 (view) Author: nikitathespider (nikitathespider) Date: 2006-11-07 03:08 
The documentation for urllib2.urlopen() says that it
"[r]aises URLError on errors". But if urllib2 requests
a resource from a (misconfigured) Web server and that
server returns 302 response with the Location header
set to "file:", urlopen raises "OSError: [Errno 2] No
such file or directory: ''". I have seen such a
misconfiguration in the wild; I've also created a URL
on my server that reproduces the problem in case the
real-world URL disappears or is fixed. Both URLs are in
the attachment with code to reproduce the problem.

I can recreate this under Python 2.3 - 2.5 under Mac OS
X, FreeBSD and Win2k.

I would be satisfied if the module simply followed the
documentation and actually returned URLError.
msg30473 (view) Author: Jerry Seutter (jseutter) Date: 2007-02-24 23:23 
Fix submitted in patch 1668100 - urllib2.urlopen() raises OSError instead of URLError

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1668100&group_id=5470&atid=305470
msg30474 (view) Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) Date: 2007-03-13 08:15 
Fixed with said patch. Thanks for the report!
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