[issue22450] urllib doesn't put Accept: */* in the headers

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

Putting it another way:   To an origin server, 'Accept: */*' means it can return anything it wants.  To a proxy server, the absence of an accept header means in can return anything it has cached (possibly different from what the origin server would have returned).  In contract, to a proxy server, 'Accept: */*' means return exactly what the origin server would have returned with the same headers.

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