From: Cory Benfield <lukasaoz@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 08:53:12 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Update trivial mentions to RFC 2616.
X-Git-Tag: v2.4.0~41^2
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=22433163b35bb451e4804b8d757ef25d58e1171a;p=services%2Fpython-requests.git

Update trivial mentions to RFC 2616.
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diff --git a/docs/user/quickstart.rst b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
index f427361..ddf72da 100644
--- a/docs/user/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
@@ -325,8 +325,8 @@ We can view the server's response headers using a Python dictionary::
     }
 
 The dictionary is special, though: it's made just for HTTP headers. According to
-`RFC 2616 <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html>`_, HTTP
-Headers are case-insensitive.
+`RFC 7230 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-3.2>`_, HTTP Header names
+are case-insensitive.
 
 So, we can access the headers using any capitalization we want::
 
diff --git a/requests/sessions.py b/requests/sessions.py
index df85a25..4ec3d14 100644
--- a/requests/sessions.py
+++ b/requests/sessions.py
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class SessionRedirectMixin(object):
             parsed = urlparse(url)
             url = parsed.geturl()
 
-            # Facilitate non-RFC2616-compliant 'location' headers
+            # Facilitate relative 'location' headers, as allowed by RFC 7231.
             # (e.g. '/path/to/resource' instead of 'http://domain.tld/path/to/resource')
             # Compliant with RFC3986, we percent encode the url.
             if not urlparse(url).netloc:
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ class SessionRedirectMixin(object):
 
             prepared_request.url = to_native_string(url)
 
-            # http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.4
+            # http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.4.4
             if (resp.status_code == codes.see_other and
                     method != 'HEAD'):
                 method = 'GET'