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| author | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> | 2010-08-21 16:08:32 (GMT) |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> | 2010-08-21 16:08:32 (GMT) |
| commit | 6cbe4275cbb48ae4161143f8b97636fc19f678e5 (patch) | |
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Add info about HTTP/1.1 and Connection:Close header.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index 0755415..1578968 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions: *data* should be a buffer in the standard :mimetype:`application/x-www-form-urlencoded` format. The :func:`urllib.parse.urlencode` function takes a mapping or sequence - of 2-tuples and returns a string in this format. + of 2-tuples and returns a string in this format. urllib.request module uses + HTTP/1.1 and includes `Connection:close` header in its HTTP requests. The optional *timeout* parameter specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt (if not specified, |