Bryan Bishop added the comment:
I'll go ahead and close this. The putrequest/putheader/endheaders suggestion is
probably sufficient. Although I do wonder if a docs update is warranted,
explaining the default behavior..
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resolution: -> wont fix
stage: -> resolved
status: pending
Irit Katriel added the comment:
Bryan, as there isn't unanimous agreement about the feature you suggested: if
you are still interested in working on this, could you bring it up on
python-id...@python.org so that it can be discussed?
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nosy: +iritkatriel
status: open -> pending
Martin Panter added the comment:
I tend to think that this proposal should be rejected. If you need low-level
control over the header fields, just use putrequest(), putheader() and
endheaders() methods instead. And adding these flags to request() isn’t going
to help with urlopen(), unless the
