Issue 2464. Supports a malformation in the URL received

in a redirect.

Lib/urllib2.py

@@ -560,6 +560,14 @@ class HTTPRedirectHandler(BaseHandler):
             newurl = headers.getheaders('uri')[0]
         else:
             return
+
+        # fix a possible malformed URL
+        urlparts = urlparse.urlparse(newurl)
+        if not urlparts.path:
+            urlparts = list(urlparts)
+            urlparts[2] = "/"
+        newurl = urlparse.urlunparse(urlparts)
+
         newurl = urlparse.urljoin(req.get_full_url(), newurl)
 
         # XXX Probably want to forget about the state of the current

Misc/NEWS

@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue 2464. urllib2 now supports a malformation in the URL received
+  in a redirect.
+
 - Silence the DeprecationWarning raised when importing mimetools in
   BaseHTTPServer, cgi (and rfc822), httplib.