[New-bugs-announce] [issue40321] urllib.request does not support HTTP response status code 308

[Jochem Schulenklopper]

New submission from Jochem Schulenklopper <j.schulenklopper at gmail.com>:

urllib.request does not yet support HTTP response status code 308, as defined in IETF RFC 7538, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7538.

308 (permanent redirect) is the 307-variant (temporary redirect) of 301 (moved permanently).

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 366729
nosy: Jochem Schulenklopper
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: urllib.request does not support HTTP response status code 308
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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