[Python-Dev] Python 3.0 urllib fails with chunked HTTP responses (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy at alum.mit.edu
Mon Dec 15 05:06:51 CET 2008


This bug is pretty serious, because urllib will insert garbage into the application-visible data for a chunked response. It simply ignores the fact that it's reading a chunked response and includes the chunked header data is payload data. The original bug was reported in September, but no one noticed it. It was reported again recently.

http://bugs.python.org/issue3761 http://bugs.python.org/issue4631

I suspect we'd want to get a 3.0.1 out as soon as this is fixed, but that's not my call.

Jeremy



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