Author: O.R.Senthil Kumaran Google Summer of Code 2007 Tasks - Cleanup urllib2 Date: 25 Sep 2007 TODO: 1) urllib unification progress. Complaince with RFC3986 and RFC3987 a) urllib2 merge b) proxy-support b) unit-tests. c) Documentation. 2) Author PEP to discuss about Unified Module inclusion in Python 2.6 and Python 3K. 3) [ 1675455 ] Use getaddrinfo() in urllib2.py for IPv6 support. * 25 Sep. Done. * Test with IPv6 address. 4) As in mechanize and urlgrabber,Implement higher level interfaces to url module,which can accomplish most common tasks. a) Handler classes HTTPRefreshProcessor, HTTPEquivProcessor, HTTPRobotRulesProcessor b) HTTPRedirectHandler, HTTPRequestUpgradeProcessor and ResponseUpgradeProcessor 5) Patch 1462525 - uriparser. 6) URL Encoding with respect to Unicode.