[issue14144] urllib2 HTTPRedirectHandler not forwarding POST data in redirect
Éric Araujo
report at bugs.python.org
Sat Mar 3 12:44:54 CET 2012
Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:
> However, an added option which leaves the current behavior as the default shouldn't hurt.
My opinion too. urllib is sometimes a client, sometimes a library used to build clients, which need a knob to implement their own decisions or possibly ask the user for confirmation.
A new argument being a new feature, this patch must target 3.3.
Some comments on the patch:
+ # NOTE: Setting redirect_post_data to True *can* introduce security
+ # issues and is not recommended unless you are sure of where the
+ # POST data is being redirected!
I would tone down this note, for example:
# setting redirect_post_data to True can introduce security
# issues, use with caution
+ redirect_post_data = False
Is an attribute okay or should methods (__init__, maybe methods that do the requests too) grow a new parameter?
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stage: -> patch review
type: behavior -> enhancement
versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 2.7
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