[ python-Bugs-994101 ] urllib2: improper capitalization of headers

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Bugs item #994101, was opened at 2004-07-19 22:22
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Robert Sayre (franklinmint)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: urllib2: improper capitalization of headers

Initial Comment:
urllib2.py version 1.72 uses capitalize() on HTTP
header names. This results in headers like "User-agent"
instead of "User-Agent". This causes HTTP 400 errors on
some servers when the request has a body, because there
are two content length headers placed in the request:

"Content-Length" (inserted by httplib)
"Content-length" (inserted by
Request.add_unredirected_header)

The capitalization is incorrect, and httplib inserts
Content-Length anyway, so I'm not sure why urllib2 is
bothering.

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Comment By: John J Lee (jjlee)
Date: 2004-07-25 19:06

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I've added a comment to 996159 which explains what's wrong 
and points to a new patch.


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Comment By: Johannes Gijsbers (jlgijsbers)
Date: 2004-07-22 21:48

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Patch is available at http://python.org/sf/996159.

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