[issue16388] Urllib screws up capitalization in "User-Agent" HTTP Header

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Calvin. - I shall act upon old bug. The tricky nature of backwards compatibility sometimes let's it stale because we can not come t a good conclusion. -- nosy: +orsenthil ___ Python tracker

[issue16388] Urllib screws up capitalization in "User-Agent" HTTP Header

Changes by Jesús Cea Avión : -- nosy: +jcea ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.

[issue16388] Urllib screws up capitalization in "User-Agent" HTTP Header

Calvin Owens added the comment: 2275 hasn't been touched for almost 2 years. If there was a fix in v3.3, it ought to be backported. But it doesn't look like they ever came up with one. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue16388] Urllib screws up capitalization in "User-Agent" HTTP Header

Changes by R. David Murray : -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> urllib/httplib header capitalization ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16388] Urllib screws up capitalization in "User-Agent" HTTP Header

New submission from Calvin Owens: Urllib encodes as: "User-agent" The correct form is: "User-Agent" This is quite important, as it makes this library totally unusable for scraping moronic websites which require a recognized User-Agent string to work correctly, of which there are many. ---