[New-bugs-announce] [issue2275] urllib2 header capitalization
Hans-Peter Jansen
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Mar 11 22:22:20 CET 2008
New submission from Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj at urpla.net>:
The urllib2 behavior related to headers is - hmm - improvable.
It simply capitalize() the key, which leads to funny results like:
Accept-charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
while this is seemingly conforming to the specs, it's simply different
to every other implementation of such things..
And we can do better. How about:
--- /usr/lib/python/urllib2.py 2008-01-10 19:03:55.000000000 +0100
+++ urllib2.py 2008-03-11 21:25:33.523890670 +0100
@@ -261,13 +261,16 @@ class Request:
def is_unverifiable(self):
return self.unverifiable
+ def _cap_header_key(self, key):
+ return '-'.join((ck.capitalize() for ck in key.split('-')))
+
def add_header(self, key, val):
# useful for something like authentication
- self.headers[key.capitalize()] = val
+ self.headers[self._cap_header_key(key)] = val
def add_unredirected_header(self, key, val):
# will not be added to a redirected request
- self.unredirected_hdrs[key.capitalize()] = val
+ self.unredirected_hdrs[self._cap_header_key(key)] = val
def has_header(self, header_name):
return (header_name in self.headers or
I'm not happy with the _cap_header_key name, but you get the idea.
The patch is optimized to operate with maximum locality. It's also
attached.
I would be very grateful, if something similar could be applied.
Opinions?
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components: Library (Lib)
files: urllib2-cap-headers.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 63466
nosy: frispete
severity: minor
status: open
title: urllib2 header capitalization
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file9658/urllib2-cap-headers.diff
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