[issue34357] situation where urllib3 works, but urllib does not work

Change by Martin Panter : -- superseder: -> Cannot override 'connection: close' in urllib2 headers ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue34357] situation where urllib3 works, but urllib does not work

David added the comment: martin.parter, it worked! Thanks so much, I was going nuts I also read the issue you pointed to, very interesting. Even if all servers should just work here, it does not seem to be the case in real life (I guess it's something easy to misconfigure) so I agree

[issue34357] situation where urllib3 works, but urllib does not work

David added the comment: Hi Martin. It's definitely something with my internet connection. Yesterday I temporarily changed the way I connect to the internet to use the mobile connection from my cell phone instead of my WiFi connection, and things started working. I also debugged the

[issue34357] situation where urllib3 works, but urllib does not work

Martin Panter added the comment: I can’t get it to hang. Does your computer or Internet provider have a proxy or firewall that may be interfering? Perhaps it is worth comparing the HTTP header fields being sent and received. You can enable debug messages to see the request sent, and print

[issue34357] situation where urllib3 works, but urllib does not work

New submission from David : Hello! Newbie to python here. I run into an issue with one desktop library, Cinnamon. Specifically this one: https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/5926#issuecomment-411232144. This library uses the urllib in the standard library to download some json. But