[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #965: CLI commands should follow HTTP redirects

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#965: CLI commands should follow HTTP redirects
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:
  davidsarah             |     Status:  new
         Type:  defect   |  Milestone:  soon
     Priority:  major    |    Version:  1.6.0
    Component:  code-    |   Keywords:  forward-compatibility http
  frontend-cli           |  standards easy
   Resolution:           |
Launchpad Bug:           |
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Description changed by davidsarah:

Old description:

> As mentioned in #958, it is normally the responsibility of an HTTP client
> to follow redirects, but the CLI commands don't do so. This is because
> source:src/allmydata/scripts/common_http.py uses Python's {{{httplib}}}
> directly. Up to now this hasn't mattered because the CLI commands only
> make HTTP requests that will not redirect. However, if #958 is
> implemented then any request might redirect.
>
> This is easy to fix, for example by using {{{urllib2}}} as described
> [http://diveintopython.org/http_web_services/redirects.html here].

New description:

 As mentioned in #958, it is normally the responsibility of an HTTP client
 to follow redirects, but the CLI commands don't do so. This is because
 source:src/allmydata/scripts/common_http.py uses Python's {{{httplib}}}
 directly. Up to now this hasn't mattered because the CLI commands only
 make HTTP requests that will not redirect. However, if #958 is implemented
 then any request might redirect.

 This is easy to fix, for example by using {{{urllib2}}} as described
 [http://www.diveintopython.net/http_web_services/redirects.html here].

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