kennethreitz/requests — Issue #441: Should requests honor http-equiv meta refresh?
Author: mattklein
Created: 2012-02-18 23:55:46+00:00
State: open

It's possible for a server to instruct a client to redirect to a URL by using the [http-equiv meta tag](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh). It's antiquated, but it's still out there, and browsers still handle it as a redirect.

Should requests honor the http-equiv refresh, handling it essentially the same as a 301? I'd like to think so, because that's what browsers do. To do so would mean having requests parse the \ section of the response body -- which shouldn't be too difficult or inefficient (even without BeautifulSoup ;). Has this been considered/addressed?