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@ZLeventer ZLeventer commented Apr 24, 2026

Summary

Replace dead/broken URLs in urllib documentation files:

  • Doc/library/urllib.request.rst: Replace musi-cal.com (returns 503) with python.org/search in the GET example, and replace requestb.in (returns 403) with httpbin.org/post in the POST example
  • Doc/library/urllib.robotparser.rst: Replace bare http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html URL with an :rfc:9309`` reference — RFC 9309 ("Robots Exclusion Protocol") is the authoritative IETF standard for robots.txt

Closes #141444
Closes #141412


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Replace dead/broken URLs in urllib documentation:

- urllib.request.rst: Replace musi-cal.com (503) with python.org/search
  for GET example
- urllib.request.rst: Replace requestb.in (403) with httpbin.org/post
  for POST example
- urllib.robotparser.rst: Replace robotstxt.org/orig.html with RFC 9309
  reference, which is the authoritative IETF standard for robots.txt
@ZLeventer ZLeventer requested a review from berkerpeksag as a code owner April 24, 2026 11:13
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@bedevere-app bedevere-app Bot added awaiting review docs Documentation in the Doc dir skip news labels Apr 24, 2026
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@ZLeventer ZLeventer changed the title Fix dead URLs in urllib documentation gh-141444: Fix dead URLs in urllib documentation Apr 24, 2026
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