the module but exposed as part of the API.

in a redirect.

after a 302 response in the case of not going through a proxy.

all the upper level libraries that use it, including urllib2.
Added and fixed some tests, and changed docs correspondingly.
Thanks to John J Lee for the patch and the pusing, :)

derive the same default base class.

Will backport.

to GET, so it loses its payload. So, it also must lose the
headers related to the payload (if it has no content any more,
it shouldn't indicate content length and type).

I'm not sure this is the correct fix, but at least the test passes
now and should be closer to correct.

alone class.  This addresses the primary concern in

 http://bugs.python.org/issue1706815

python-dev discussion here:

 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-July/073749.html

I chose IOError rather than EnvironmentError as the base class since
socket objects are often used as transparent duck typed file objects
in code already prepared to deal with IOError exceptions.

also a minor fix:

 urllib2 - fix a couple places where IOError was raised rather than URLError.
           for better or worse, URLError already inherits from IOError so
           this won't break any existing code.

 test_urllib2net - replace bad ftp urls.

without handler.

with tests in test_urllib2net.py (must have network resource
enabled to execute them). Also modified test_urllib2.py because
testing mock classes must take it into acount. Docs are also
updated.

Python 2.5.

Also remove gopher support from urllib/urllib2.  As both imported gopherlib the
usage of the support would have raised a DeprecationWarning.

You might want to review this change as it's my first time.  Be gentle. :-)

request was successfully received, understood, and accepted.
Now in these cases no error is raised. Also fixed tests.

OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.

base64.encodestring() for encoding authentication data.
encodestring() can include newlines for very long input, which
produced broken HTTP headers.

and watch out for handler name collisions.

(fixes #1484793).