[Web-SIG] python bug issue2464

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:00:28 +0530, "O.R.Senthil Kumaran" <orsenthil at gmail.com> wrote:
>* scriptor Jean-Paul Calderone, explico
>>  Some things:
>>
>>   http://foo.com
>>
>>  This is not a valid URL.  The correct URL for the intended location here
>>  is:
>>
>>   http://foo.com/
>>
>>  This is the root of the problem, I suspect.  Firefox notices this problem
>
>I doubt, if this is the problem, Jean.
>I tried,
>>>> obj = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.wikispaces.com/")
>
>Ended up at the same problem as described in my original post.
>
>>  The tokens are different because these are values from actual requests.
>>  Notice the important difference, though - Firefox's request begins with
>>  a /.
>Were those from the same site? I got different set of tokens as well.
>
>>  Likely, urllib2 should do a bit more validation of its input and make
>>  sure it is only making requests which follow the protocol.
>
>I doubt if that was as simple. I am trying to figure out where the redirection
>is getting lost of how firefox is figuring it out.
>It *might* be a bad implementation that we are dealing, but still would like to
>know where the problem escaping.

Adding the / to the end of the originally requested URL doesn't help.  The
redirect that wikispaces.com generates is also missing a /.  It's that
redirect URL which ultimately causes the problem.

It's pretty easy to see what's going on; start up wireshark and take a look.

Jean-Paul