[issue8035] urllib.request.urlretrieve hangs waiting for connection close after a redirect

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

> It could be possible to set up an ad-hoc httpserver for that purpose,
> but that sounds a bit overkill.

Oh, I assumed urllib already had a server for tests.  We have one in distutils2/packaging, otherwise we’d have to resort to manual testing against the real PyPI, and I’d feel much less confident about regressions.

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