On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:12:08PM +0000, Jeremy Thurgood wrote: > I see your point now, but I don't agree with it completely. It seems > reasonable to allow query parameters to specify things like sort > order for a directory listing or have a fragment to focus the > browser on a particular entry. Can you please point me to some examples where such a kind of behavior is exhibited or designed? > On the other hand, if we don't want to support the > redirect with a fragment or query parameters, we should instead return > a 400 response. SimpleHTTPRequestHandler does not support REDIRECT on *a path* (any path, directory or file, for that matter). This bug was about a primitive case where directory in the file system is not specified with '/', it does a Hardcoded 301 redirect and adds a '/'. >I can't see any situation in which redirecting > "/something?foo" to "/something?foo/" is the correct behaviour. As I explained, in the previous post, this would *not happen* in practical scenarios, because code won't reach that point for valid URLs. > A 401 is "Unauthorized", which means the server is asking for > authentication -- I don't think that's relevant here. I am sorry, this was a typo. It fails with -> urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request