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If you can find a library low level enough to let you send unescape urls your webserver *should* reject the request
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bad_request.py
import httplib
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('localhost', 8080)
conn.connect()
conn.putrequest('GET', '/v1/auth/container/a b x?')
conn.endheaders()
resp = conn.getresponse()
print resp.read()
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example.out
ubuntu@saio:~/python-swiftclient$ python /vagrant/.scratch/bad_request.py
<head>
<title>Error response</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Error response</h1>
<p>Error code 400.
<p>Message: Bad request syntax ('GET /v1/auth/container/a b x? HTTP/1.1').
<p>Error code explanation: 400 = Bad request syntax or unsupported method.
</body>
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