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

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Wed Dec 13 22:38:32 CET 2006

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:00:48PM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:

Personally, I think very elaborate support for HTTP in httplib, and very few generalizations and abstractions in urllib* would be the "right" way to do it, IMO. For example, there might be the notion of an "http session" object where a single application request can resolve to multiple http requests (with redirection, authentication negotiation, cookies, 100 continue, implicit headers, etc).

I see.

For compatibility, urllib* can't drop features

Leave it for py3k, then.

and we'd need contributors who contribute such a refactoring

That's the hardest part.

If applications use urllib only for http, and only because it has these multi-request, implicit headers features, something is wrong with the abstractions.

I think I agree.

Oleg.

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