Fix closes issue 1673007 urllib.request to support HEAD requests with a new method arg.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
index 77637a6..4e34ae5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib.py
@@ -1157,6 +1157,28 @@ class URLopener_Tests(unittest.TestCase):
 #         self.assertEqual(ftp.ftp.sock.gettimeout(), 30)
 #         ftp.close()
 
+class RequestTests(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Unit tests for urllib.request.Request."""
+
+    def test_default_values(self):
+        Request = urllib.request.Request
+        request = Request("http://www.python.org")
+        self.assertEqual(request.get_method(), 'GET')
+        request = Request("http://www.python.org", {})
+        self.assertEqual(request.get_method(), 'POST')
+
+    def test_with_method_arg(self):
+        Request = urllib.request.Request
+        request = Request("http://www.python.org", method='HEAD')
+        self.assertEqual(request.method, 'HEAD')
+        self.assertEqual(request.get_method(), 'HEAD')
+        request = Request("http://www.python.org", {}, method='HEAD')
+        self.assertEqual(request.method, 'HEAD')
+        self.assertEqual(request.get_method(), 'HEAD')
+        request = Request("http://www.python.org", method='GET')
+        self.assertEqual(request.get_method(), 'GET')
+        request.method = 'HEAD'
+        self.assertEqual(request.get_method(), 'HEAD')
 
 
 def test_main():
@@ -1172,6 +1194,7 @@ def test_main():
         Utility_Tests,
         URLopener_Tests,
         #FTPWrapperTests,
+        RequestTests,
     )