mention the use of the maxtries attribute of FancyURLopener in bounding

Skip Montanaro · Skip Montanaro · commit 04f1d37471d6 · 2001-02-15T17:00:40.000Z
redirection recursion.
diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex
@@ -205,7 +205,9 @@ \section{\module{urllib} ---
 handling for the following HTTP response codes: 301, 302 or 401.  For
 301 and 302 response codes, the \code{location} header is used to
 fetch the actual URL.  For 401 response codes (authentication
-required), basic HTTP authentication is performed.
+required), basic HTTP authentication is performed.  For 301 and 302 response
+codes, recursion is bounded by the value of the \var{maxtries} attribute,
+which defaults 10.
 
 The parameters to the constructor are the same as those for
 \class{URLopener}.
