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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2016-09-09 23:43:48 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2016-09-09 23:43:48 (GMT) |
| commit | ae9e5f032d05377ec0aef04947b449a9a0d7a3b3 (patch) | |
| tree | f90fcb9bac9d34e068da12bb1ca36ebe53c0ef12 | |
| parent | c87ae806abdf79dd5d000aaec47596122a93b29b (diff) | |
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Issue #22450: Use "Accept: */*" in the default headers for urllib.request
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/urllib/request.py | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 4 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py index 3be327d..a4bf97d 100644 --- a/Lib/urllib/request.py +++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py @@ -1625,7 +1625,7 @@ class URLopener: self.proxies = proxies self.key_file = x509.get('key_file') self.cert_file = x509.get('cert_file') - self.addheaders = [('User-Agent', self.version)] + self.addheaders = [('User-Agent', self.version), ('Accept', '*/*')] self.__tempfiles = [] self.__unlink = os.unlink # See cleanup() self.tempcache = None @@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ Library - Issue #27445: Don't pass str(_charset) to MIMEText.set_payload(). Patch by Claude Paroz. +- Issue #22450: urllib now includes an "Accept: */*" header among the + default headers. This makes the results of REST API requests more + consistent and predictable especially when proxy servers are involved. + - lib2to3.pgen3.driver.load_grammar() now creates a stable cache file between runs given the same Grammar.txt input regardless of the hash randomization setting. |