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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/urllib.py | 19 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py index b410bd89a7..af943545d2 100644 --- a/Lib/urllib.py +++ b/Lib/urllib.py @@ -1,16 +1,23 @@ # Open an arbitrary URL # -# See the following document for a tentative description of URLs: -# Uniform Resource Locators Tim Berners-Lee -# INTERNET DRAFT CERN -# IETF URL Working Group 14 July 1993 -# draft-ietf-uri-url-01.txt +# See the following document for more info on URLs: +# "Names and Addresses, URIs, URLs, URNs, URCs", at +# http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Addressing/Overview.html +# +# See also the HTTP spec (from which the error codes are derived): +# "HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol", at +# http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/ +# +# Related standards and specs: +# - RFC1808: the "relative URL" spec. (authoritative status) +# - RFC1738 - the "URL standard". (authoritative status) +# - RFC1630 - the "URI spec". (informational status) # # The object returned by URLopener().open(file) will differ per # protocol. All you know is that is has methods read(), readline(), # readlines(), fileno(), close() and info(). The read*(), fileno() # and close() methods work like those of open files. -# The info() method returns an mimetools.Message object which can be +# The info() method returns a mimetools.Message object which can be # used to query various info about the object, if available. # (mimetools.Message objects are queried with the getheader() method.) |