Issue #22450: Use "Accept: */*" in the default headers for urllib.request

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Raymond Hettinger 2016-09-09 16:43:48 -07:00
parent c87ae806ab
commit ae9e5f032d
2 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -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

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@ -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.