How do I make urllib2 preserve case in HTTP header names?
John J. Lee
jjl at pobox.com
Thu Oct 11 14:31:17 EDT 2007
tepples at spamcop.net writes:
> The HTTP specification, RFC 2616, states that field names in HTTP
> headers are case insensitive. But I'm trying to use Python 2.5.1's
> urllib2 to interact with a web service offered by Amazon.com, which
> deviates from the HTTP spec in that it requires use of case-sensitive
> header names ReportName, ReportID, and NumberOfReports. I try to send
> an HTTP header named "NumberOfReports", but it comes out mangled as
> "Numberofreports'. What is the best way to use Python 2.5.1 on
> Windows Server 2003 to create HTTP or HTTPS requests that do not
> mangle the case of header field names?
httplib
John
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