urllib issues Roundup

I had a spreadsheet listing down the bugs in the urllib. I could not use it effectively as much as I wished to. Decided to list down the bugs in the blog itself so that I stay on top of things TODO.


Feature Requests:

• http://bugs.python.org/issue1591035
  update urlparse to RFC 3986
  
  
• http://bugs.python.org/issue1462525
  URI parsing library
  
• http://bugs.python.org/issue1448934
  urllib2+https+proxy not working
  

Bugs:

Following are quick fixes as per my analysis.

• 
  http://bugs.python.org/issue1432
  Strange behavior of urlparse.urljoin
  I have the patch attached for this.
  Review is required before checkin.
  
• http://bugs.python.org/issue2275
  urllib2 header capitalization. Patch attached.
  
• http://bugs.python.org/issue2464
  urllib2 can't handle http://www.wikispaces.com
  
• http://bugs.python.org/issue2776
  urllib2.urlopen() gets confused with path with // in it
  
• http://bugs.python.org/issue2756
  urllib2 add_header fails with existing unredirected_header
  Patch attached.
  
• http://bugs.python.org/issue2916
  urlgrabber.grabber calls setdefaulttimeout
  

Following will take days time.

• http://bugs.python.org/issue2885
  Create the urllib package
  
• 
  http://bugs.python.org/issue1424152
  urllib/urllib2: HTTPS over (Squid) Proxy fails
  Patch recently attached.
  
• http://bugs.python.org/issue1675455
  Use getaddrinfo() in urllib2.py for IPv6 support. Patch provided.
  
• 
  http://bugs.python.org/issue2987
  RFC2732 support for urlparse (e.g. http://[::1]:80/)
  

Low priority.

• http://bugs.python.org/issue1285086
  urllib.quote is too slow
  

Fixed Issues: Yet to be closed

• 
  http://bugs.python.org/issue600362
  relocate cgi.parse_qs() into urlparse
  
• http://bugs.python.org/issue2829
  Copy cgi.parse_qs() to urllib.parse
  
• http://bugs.python.org/issue2195
  urlparse() does not handle URLs with port numbers properly
  Duplicate issue. Needs to be closed.