[New-bugs-announce] [issue16388] Urllib screws up capitalization in "User-Agent" HTTP Header

[Calvin Owens]

New submission from Calvin Owens:

Urllib encodes as: "User-agent"
The correct form is: "User-Agent"

This is quite important, as it makes this library totally unusable for scraping moronic websites which require a recognized User-Agent string to work correctly, of which there are many.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 174540
nosy: Calvin.Owens
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Urllib screws up capitalization in "User-Agent" HTTP Header
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2

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