[New-bugs-announce] [issue22450] urllib doesn't put Accept: */* in the headers

[Raymond Hettinger]

New submission from Raymond Hettinger:

The use of urllib for REST APIs is impaired in the absence of a "Accept: */*" header such as that added automatically by the requests package or by the CURL command-line tool.



# Example that gets an incorrect result due to the missing header
import urllib
print urllib.urlopen('http://graph.facebook.com/raymondh').headers['Content-Type']

# Equivalent call using CURL
$ curl -v http://graph.facebook.com/raymondh
...
* Connected to graph.facebook.com (31.13.75.1) port 80 (#0)
> GET /raymondh HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.30.0
> Host: graph.facebook.com
> Accept: */*
>

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files: accept.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 227194
nosy: rhettinger
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: urllib doesn't put Accept: */* in the headers
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36673/accept.diff

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