[issue12576] urlib.request fails to open some sites

[Senthil Kumaran]

Senthil Kumaran <senthil at uthcode.com> added the comment:

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:07:44AM +0000, Ugra Dániel wrote:

> For example IMDb's "Cneonction: close" (not a typo) feature.  But

This is a mistake at the server and urllib relies on the
Connection: close header at some point in time in the process.

You could try with few other sites and see that context manager should
work.

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