urllib2 doesn't escape spaces in http requests

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start by reviewing the superseding bpo-14826 issue and the listed urllib2-related patches, especially urllib-request-space-encode.diff. Confirm whether the space-escaping behavior is still needed in the current codebase; the existing issue is marked as a duplicate and has no linked pull request or named test.

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Description

stdlib type-bug
BPO 13359
Nosy @orsenthil, @ezio-melotti, @karlcow, @sandrotosi, @mmaker, @sorcio, @vadmium
Superseder
  • bpo-14826: urlopen URL with unescaped space
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    Files
  • issue13359.patch: percent encoding of urls to fix the issue reported.
  • issue13359.patch
  • issue13359_py2.patch
  • urllib-request-space-encode.diff
    		•

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    GitHub fields:

    assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2011-11-06.20:13:46.480>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library']
title = "urllib2 doesn't escape spaces in http requests"
updated_at = <Date 2017-06-03.05:54:20.991>
user = 'https://github.com/sorcio'

    bugs.python.org fields:

    activity = <Date 2017-06-03.05:54:20.991>
actor = 'martin.panter'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2011-11-06.20:13:46.480>
creator = 'davide.rizzo'
dependencies = []
files = ['23642', '24215', '24216', '30795']
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 13359
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 10.0
messages = ['147180', '147349', '149441', '151126', '151127', '151129', '151131', '183576', '192400', '295066']
nosy_count = 11.0
nosy_names = ['orsenthil', 'kiilerix', 'ezio.melotti', 'karlcow', 'sandro.tosi', 'maker', 'davide.rizzo', 'Ramchandra Apte', 'martin.panter', 'krisys', 'senko']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'duplicate'
stage = 'test needed'
status = 'open'
superseder = '14826'
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue13359'
versions = ['Python 2.7', 'Python 3.2', 'Python 3.3']

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