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authorguido@google.com <guido@google.com>2011-03-29 18:41:02 (GMT)
committerguido@google.com <guido@google.com>2011-03-29 18:41:02 (GMT)
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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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Library
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+- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
+ scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
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- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.