[New-bugs-announce] [issue5550] urllib2 use of opener.addheaders

[cocobear]

New submission from cocobear <cocobear.cn at gmail.com>:

take a look at following code:
<code>
import urllib2

headers = [("Content-Type","application/oct-stream"),]
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
opener.addheaders = headers
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
print "after install_opener"

ret = opener.open('http://www.google.com',data="word=ss")
print ret.read()
</code>

I got real send data by wireshark：

POST / HTTP/1.1

Accept-Encoding: identity

Content-Length: 7

Host: www.dict.cn

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Connection: close



word=ss


I had already set HTTP header of Content-Type, but actally urllib2
change this header.

I got this piece of code from urllib2.py:

       if request.has_data():  # POST
           data = request.get_data()
           if not request.has_header('Content-type'):
               request.add_unredirected_header(
                   'Content-type',
                   'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
           if not request.has_header('Content-length'):
               request.add_unredirected_header(
                   'Content-length', '%d' % len(data))

       scheme, sel = splittype(request.get_selector())
       sel_host, sel_path = splithost(sel)
       if not request.has_header('Host'):
           request.add_unredirected_header('Host', sel_host or host)
       for name, value in self.parent.addheaders:
           name = name.capitalize()
           if not request.has_header(name):
               request.add_unredirected_header(name, value)


first,urllib2 will add Content-Type if it's POST method, then it try to
add headers which holded by opener, but there's already 'Content-Type',
so the attribute->addheaders of opener will not append.

I can use Request to add 'Content-Type' header：

 request = urllib2.Request(url,headers=headers,data=body)

The example code that I wrote doesn't correct? or it's a problem of urllib2?

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 84058
nosy: cocobear
severity: normal
status: open
title: urllib2 use of opener.addheaders
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5

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