GET request to PyPI does not work

[rubik]

Hi, requests it is fantastic!
But if I try to retrieve data from http://pypi.python.org/simple/sphinx/ I get the following error:

ValueError: unknown url type: /simple/Sphinx

That is because PyPI redirects me to that url. You should really allow redirections.

rubik

[kennethreitz]

Requests does have extensive redirection support. Looks like PyPI is attempting a relative redirect. I don't think that's a valid redirect, but I'll try to support it.

[kennethreitz]

Yeah, that's not a valid form of redirection.

See: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.30

I see no harm in trying to support it though.

[rubik]

Ok, thank you. I didn't know that.

[kennethreitz]

Support for this was just added. It will be included in the next release.

[rubik]

Ok thank you very much!

[kennethreitz]

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