[New-bugs-announce] [issue8732] Should urrllib2.urlopen send an Accept-Encoding header?

[Dave Abrahams]

New submission from Dave Abrahams <dave at boostpro.com>:

According to the RFC, the server is allowed to send back any encoding it likes when no Accept-Encoding header is supplied, but all the examples I can find of urllib2.urlopen usage assume they're getting plain text back.  I think it would be better to inject an Accept-Encoding header when none is explicitly supplied so that nobody else trips over this issue.

See http://support.github.com/discussions/site/1510

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 105870
nosy: dabrahams
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Should urrllib2.urlopen send an Accept-Encoding header?
versions: Python 2.6

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