fixing 408085 - redirect from https becomes http

Even though relative redirects are illegal, they are common
urllib treated every relative redirect as though it was to http,
even if the original was https://
As long as we're compensating for server bugs, might as well do
it properly.

diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index 55725807017315751c6773121ca84d35629b264e..3175199a96ab6eae7721d078cbd4d7afe1ba47a3 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ class FancyURLopener(URLopener):
         void = fp.read()
         fp.close()
         # In case the server sent a relative URL, join with original:
-        newurl = basejoin("http:" + url, newurl)
+        newurl = basejoin(self.type + ":" + url, newurl)
         if data is None:
             return self.open(newurl)
         else: