From a1afbf617d0a7dd33632f3666c7e0fab8e88febf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Reifscheider <jafo@tummy.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:52:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] issue1177: Ported Facundo's from urllib2 to urllib, accepting
 2xx responses.

---
 Lib/urllib.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index 5f3ec3c1602..96115fbe50d 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -340,7 +340,9 @@ 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, "http:" + url)
         else:
             if data is None: