#20155: use fake HTTP method names so windows doesn't hang the tests.

Windows was seeing the 'GET' generated by these tests as invalid and forcibly
closing the socket, causing the test to fail.

Patch by Jeff Allen.

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
index 493fade..15dec1c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ class BaseHTTPServerTestCase(BaseTestCase):
 
     def test_request_line_trimming(self):
         self.con._http_vsn_str = 'HTTP/1.1\n'
-        self.con.putrequest('GET', '/')
+        self.con.putrequest('XYZBOGUS', '/')
         self.con.endheaders()
         res = self.con.getresponse()
         self.assertEqual(res.status, 501)
@@ -152,8 +152,9 @@ class BaseHTTPServerTestCase(BaseTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(res.status, 501)
 
     def test_version_none(self):
+        # Test that a valid method is rejected when not HTTP/1.x
         self.con._http_vsn_str = ''
-        self.con.putrequest('PUT', '/')
+        self.con.putrequest('CUSTOM', '/')
         self.con.endheaders()
         res = self.con.getresponse()
         self.assertEqual(res.status, 400)
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 908f47b..fa6b1f6 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Yaniv Aknin
 Jyrki Alakuijala
 Steve Alexander
 Fred Allen
+Jeff Allen
 Ray Allen
 Billy G. Allie
 Kevin Altis
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 52c1e0e..8598c3f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -133,6 +133,10 @@ IDLE
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #20155: Changed HTTP method names in failing tests in test_httpservers
+  so that packet filtering software (specifically Windows Base Filtering Engine)
+  does not interfere with the transaction semantics expected by the tests.
+
 - Issue #19493: Refactored the ctypes test package to skip tests explicitly
   rather than silently.