From f0bb4354845cdfd188ab02009f4c28d9a67e3980 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Senthil Kumaran Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:14:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 76282 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r76282 | senthil.kumaran | 2009-11-15 11:40:30 +0530 (Sun, 15 Nov 2009) | 3 lines Addition of some details in the code comments. ........ --- Lib/urllib2.py | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py index 4763f15e78..1778675814 100644 --- a/Lib/urllib2.py +++ b/Lib/urllib2.py @@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ handler, the argument will be installed instead of the default. install_opener -- Installs a new opener as the default opener. objects of interest: -OpenerDirector -- + +OpenerDirector -- Sets up the User Agent as the Python-urllib client and manages +the Handler classes, while dealing with requests and responses. Request -- An object that encapsulates the state of a request. The state can be as simple as the URL. It can also include extra HTTP @@ -440,7 +442,7 @@ def build_opener(*handlers): """Create an opener object from a list of handlers. The opener will use several default handlers, including support - for HTTP and FTP. + for HTTP, FTP and when applicable, HTTPS. If any of the handlers passed as arguments are subclasses of the default handlers, the default handlers will not be used. -- 2.50.1