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| author | guido@google.com <guido@google.com> | 2011-03-29 18:41:02 (GMT) |
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| committer | guido@google.com <guido@google.com> | 2011-03-29 18:41:02 (GMT) |
| commit | a119df91f33724f64e6bc1ecb484eeaa30ace014 (patch) | |
| tree | be27f880b0ed6fdf79367fddc1c58019f07ca4ac /Doc/library/urllib.request.rst | |
| parent | b938c8c25316b69f1d5df2c7880a9f6b87e7c2fa (diff) | |
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Issue 11662: Fix vulnerability in urllib/urllib2.
(This version is a cleaned-up backport of a fix by Senthil Kumaran.)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index fe61030..b4a7f28 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -783,6 +783,10 @@ HTTPRedirectHandler Objects is the case, :exc:`HTTPError` is raised. See :rfc:`2616` for details of the precise meanings of the various redirection codes. + An :class:`HTTPError` exception raised as a security consideration if the + HTTPRedirectHandler is presented with a redirected url which is not an HTTP, + HTTPS or FTP url. + .. method:: HTTPRedirectHandler.redirect_request(req, fp, code, msg, hdrs, newurl) |