Hack so that if a 302 or 301 redirect contains a relative URL, the

guido · guido · commit 438b4fbc2c61 · 1999-03-29T20:23:41.000Z
right thing "just happens" (basejoin() with old URL). git-svn-id: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk@13001 6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771
diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -451,6 +451,8 @@ def http_error_302(self, url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers,
             return
         void = fp.read()
         fp.close()
+        # In case the server sent a relative URL, join with original:
+        newurl = basejoin("http:" + url, newurl)
         return self.open(newurl, data)
 
     # Error 301 -- also relocated (permanently)
