More fixes according to SF 549151:
- When redirecting, always use GET. This is common practice and
more-or-less sanctioned by the HTTP standard.
- Add a handler for 307 redirection, which becomes an error for POST,
but a regular redirect for GET and HEAD.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 26b543b..6e8cae6 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@
Library
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+- More fixes to urllib (SF 549151): (a) When redirecting, always use
+ GET. This is common practice and more-or-less sanctioned by the
+ HTTP standard. (b) Add a handler for 307 redirection, which becomes
+ an error for POST, but a regular redirect for GET and HEAD
+
- Added optional 'onerror' argument to os.walk(), to control error
handling.