I have a patch that appears to fix this bug http://bugs.python.org/file12361/urllib-chunked.diff but I'm not sure about its interaction with the io module and RawIOBase. Is there a new IO expert who could take a look at it for me?
Jeremy On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Jeremy Hylton <jer...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > This bug is pretty serious, because urllib will insert garbage into > the application-visible data for a chunked response. It simply > ignores the fact that it's reading a chunked response and includes the > chunked header data is payload data. The original bug was reported in > September, but no one noticed it. It was reported again recently. > > http://bugs.python.org/issue3761 > http://bugs.python.org/issue4631 > > I suspect we'd want to get a 3.0.1 out as soon as this is fixed, but > that's not my call. > > Jeremy > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com