commit 94f243aa41286fa6f3733c21d7936222e7f6c251
author Facundo Batista <facundobatista@gmail.com> Sun Aug 17 03:38:39 2008 +0000
committer Facundo Batista <facundobatista@gmail.com> Sun Aug 17 03:38:39 2008 +0000
tree 4ad5bbc02b78d66711c59cd81aedf9990fe3f5a9
parent 25f2d89f324c1456c4bf9b4292d3bb9c2ad6293d

Issue 2464. Supports a malformation in the URL received
in a redirect.

Lib/urllib2.py

diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index 121685c..7b209d4 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -560,6 +560,14 @@
             newurl = headers.getheaders('uri')[0]
         else:
             return
+
+        # fix a possible malformed URL
+        urlparts = urlparse.urlparse(newurl)
+        if not urlparts.path:
+            urlparts = list(urlparts)
+            urlparts[2] = "/"
+        newurl = urlparse.urlunparse(urlparts)
+
         newurl = urlparse.urljoin(req.get_full_url(), newurl)
 
         # XXX Probably want to forget about the state of the current