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-rw-r--r--Lib/httplib.py30
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_httplib.py45
2 files changed, 64 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index 5133c8d..c0d372f 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ class HTTPResponse:
self.will_close = 1
def _check_close(self):
+ conn = self.msg.getheader('connection')
if self.version == 11:
# An HTTP/1.1 proxy is assumed to stay open unless
# explicitly closed.
@@ -352,13 +353,18 @@ class HTTPResponse:
return True
return False
- # An HTTP/1.0 response with a Connection header is probably
- # the result of a confused proxy. Ignore it.
+ # Some HTTP/1.0 implementations have support for persistent
+ # connections, using rules different than HTTP/1.1.
# For older HTTP, Keep-Alive indiciates persistent connection.
if self.msg.getheader('keep-alive'):
return False
+ # At least Akamai returns a "Connection: Keep-Alive" header,
+ # which was supposed to be sent by the client.
+ if conn and "keep-alive" in conn.lower():
+ return False
+
# Proxy-Connection is a netscape hack.
pconn = self.msg.getheader('proxy-connection')
if pconn and "keep-alive" in pconn.lower():
@@ -381,6 +387,8 @@ class HTTPResponse:
# called, meaning self.isclosed() is meaningful.
return self.fp is None
+ # XXX It would be nice to have readline and __iter__ for this, too.
+
def read(self, amt=None):
if self.fp is None:
return ''
@@ -728,15 +736,17 @@ class HTTPConnection:
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
def _send_request(self, method, url, body, headers):
- # If headers already contains a host header, then define the
- # optional skip_host argument to putrequest(). The check is
- # harder because field names are case insensitive.
- if 'host' in [k.lower() for k in headers]:
- self.putrequest(method, url, skip_host=1)
- else:
- self.putrequest(method, url)
+ # honour explicitly requested Host: and Accept-Encoding headers
+ header_names = dict.fromkeys([k.lower() for k in headers])
+ skips = {}
+ if 'host' in header_names:
+ skips['skip_host'] = 1
+ if 'accept-encoding' in header_names:
+ skips['skip_accept_encoding'] = 1
- if body:
+ self.putrequest(method, url, **skips)
+
+ if body and ('content-length' not in header_names):
self.putheader('Content-Length', str(len(body)))
for hdr, value in headers.iteritems():
self.putheader(hdr, value)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
index c57793d..5f252bb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
@@ -2,13 +2,18 @@ import httplib
import StringIO
import sys
-from test.test_support import verify,verbose
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+from test import test_support
class FakeSocket:
def __init__(self, text, fileclass=StringIO.StringIO):
self.text = text
self.fileclass = fileclass
+ def sendall(self, data):
+ self.data = data
+
def makefile(self, mode, bufsize=None):
if mode != 'r' and mode != 'rb':
raise httplib.UnimplementedFileMode()
@@ -32,6 +37,39 @@ class NoEOFStringIO(StringIO.StringIO):
raise AssertionError('caller tried to read past EOF')
return data
+
+class HeaderTests(TestCase):
+ def test_auto_headers(self):
+ # Some headers are added automatically, but should not be added by
+ # .request() if they are explicitly set.
+
+ import httplib
+
+ class HeaderCountingBuffer(list):
+ def __init__(self):
+ self.count = {}
+ def append(self, item):
+ kv = item.split(':')
+ if len(kv) > 1:
+ # item is a 'Key: Value' header string
+ lcKey = kv[0].lower()
+ self.count.setdefault(lcKey, 0)
+ self.count[lcKey] += 1
+ list.append(self, item)
+
+ for explicit_header in True, False:
+ for header in 'Content-length', 'Host', 'Accept-encoding':
+ conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('example.com')
+ conn.sock = FakeSocket('blahblahblah')
+ conn._buffer = HeaderCountingBuffer()
+
+ body = 'spamspamspam'
+ headers = {}
+ if explicit_header:
+ headers[header] = str(len(body))
+ conn.request('POST', '/', body, headers)
+ self.assertEqual(conn._buffer.count[header.lower()], 1)
+
# Collect output to a buffer so that we don't have to cope with line-ending
# issues across platforms. Specifically, the headers will have \r\n pairs
# and some platforms will strip them from the output file.
@@ -110,4 +148,9 @@ def _test():
raise AssertionError, "Did not expect response from HEAD request"
resp.close()
+
+def test_main(verbose=None):
+ tests = [HeaderTests,]
+ test_support.run_unittest(*tests)
+
test()