Making urllib2's POST 302 handle same as Perl LWP's behaviour

[Octavian Rasnita]

I have tried:

In httpd.conf:

Redirect /one/ http://localhost/two/
Redirect /two/ http://localhost/three/
redirect /three/ http://www.google.com/

Then I made a POST request with LWP::UserAgent to /one:

use LWP::UserAgent;
print LWP::UserAgent->new->post('http://localhost/one/')->as_string;

And the result was:
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:58:37 GMT
Location: http://localhost/two/
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Win32) mod_perl/2.0.4-dev Perl/v5.10.1
...

Exactly as you described.

Then I made a POST request with WWW::Mechanize:

use WWW::Mechanize;
print WWW::Mechanize->new->post('http://localhost/one/')->as_string;

And the result was:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:00:44 GMT
Server: gws

So it seems that LWP::UserAgent works similarly with mechanize and WWW::Mechanize similarly to urllib. Nice. :-)

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karra" <skarra at gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: Making urllib2's POST 302 handle same as Perl LWP's behaviour


On Dec 29, 3:57 pm, Karra <ska... at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can someone point me to how I can get the default LWP:UserAgent
> behaviour of handling this scenario using urllib2?

Out of frustration, I decided to give 'mechanize' a try. It came as an
awesome surprise that mechanize implements the exact api of urllib2 -
meaning all I had to do was a query-replace of urllib2 to mechanize,
and lo-and-behold I got what I wanted!

Which is to say, the behaviour of mechanize matches Perl's
LWP::UserAgent as afar as handling of POST redirects go.
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