I've just discovered a bug in urllib2: it drops caller-supplied headers
when processing HTTP redirects. See
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=511786&group_id=54…
for details.
The fix (to HTTPRedirectHandler.http_error_302()), as near as I can
tell, is trivial:
--- Lib/urllib2.py 2001/11/09 16:46:51 1.24
+++ Lib/urllib2.py 2002/02/01 17:00:05
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@
# XXX Probably want to forget about the state of the current
# request, although that might interact poorly with other
# handlers that also use handler-specific request attributes
- new = Request(newurl, req.get_data())
+ new = Request(newurl, req.get_data(), req.headers)
new.error_302_dict = {}
if hasattr(req, 'error_302_dict'):
if len(req.error_302_dict)>10 or \
I'll check this in (2.2.1 candidate) and close the bug unless anyone
howls.
Greg
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