[New-bugs-announce] [issue7118] urllib2.urlopen() timeout argument ignored after redirect

[Gerald Thaler]

New submission from Gerald Thaler <gerald at netestate.de>:

When a HTTP request done with urllib2.urlopen() gets redirected, the 
second request will ignore the given timeout value and may hang 
indefinitely.

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messages: 93922
nosy: gthaler
severity: normal
status: open
title: urllib2.urlopen() timeout argument ignored after redirect
versions: Python 2.6

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