How come my program can connect to a nonexistent website?

Question

I am new to python and network programming and I am having trouble with a simple program. I am basically opening a connection to a nonexistent website and somehow it seems t

Answer 1

I tested this except I used www.google.com instead. This came up with 302 Found. After a bit of googling I found out that 302 Found means that there is a redirection. This probably means that users are redirected to the right Google site for their reigon for example www.google.co.uk for UK. The 302 - Moved Permanently is probably the same thing but it just comes up different for IronPython.

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It exists because Google is still running that server and is performing redirections.