From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:08:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #1177: accept 2xx responses for https too, not only http.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6a1~1252
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9b915673b78b62cef82626ab4e580c35ae7ff3e1;p=python

#1177: accept 2xx responses for https too, not only http.
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diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index 96115fbe50..ad0e72b768 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -435,7 +435,9 @@ class URLopener:
                 # something went wrong with the HTTP status line
                 raise IOError, ('http protocol error', 0,
                                 'got a bad status line', None)
-            if errcode == 200:
+            # According to RFC 2616, "2xx" code indicates that the client's
+            # request was successfully received, understood, and accepted.
+            if not (200 <= errcode < 300):
                 return addinfourl(fp, headers, "https:" + url)
             else:
                 if data is None: