[Python-Dev] Adding resume (206) support to urllib(2) (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Wed Dec 13 08:49:12 CET 2006


On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:30:00AM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:

If you add protocol-specifics to urllib, the abstraction that urllib provides goes away, and you are better off (IMO) to use the underlying protocol library in the first place.

IMO you better don't because urllib2 provides not only an abstraction, but a lot of services (authenticated proxies, cached FTP files)...

Oleg.

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