[Httplib2-discuss] Optional non-'redirect following'

[Rene S. <re...@pt...>]

Hello,

I use the library in a proxy to retrieve pages from the target servers.

In this context, the automatic redirect following is no good, as the 
browser will not know about the redirect. Consequently, further requests 
will be sent to the wrong host, resulting in errors.

My solution to the problem is to add a flag to the Http class, in the 
constructor:

self.ignore_redirects = False

and to change this line
 >       if  (self.follow_all_redirects or method in ["GET", "HEAD"]) or 
response.status == 303:

to:
<     if  (not self.ignore_redirects) and (self.follow_all_redirects or 
method in ["GET", "HEAD"]) or response.status == 303:


Thus, the default behavior of the library remains unchanged, but gives 
the calling code a chance to retrieve the 'raw' reply from the server.

Does it make sense to add this feature to the library? What about 
caching for those replies?

René Schmit