[issue16830] Add skip_host and skip_accept_encoding to HTTPConnection.request()

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.. -- resolution: -> wont fix stage: -> resolved status: p

[issue16830] Add skip_host and skip_accept_encoding to httplib/http.client

Bryan Bishop added the comment: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Another possibility would be to allow passing None in values of the `headers` dict, in which case the given header wouldn't be send at all. I agree that your solution is more scaling-friendly than the patch

[issue16830] Add skip_host and skip_accept_encoding to httplib/http.client

New submission from Bryan Bishop: Sometimes I am using httplib/http.client and the server is not exactly conforming to HTTP specs. I need to be able to specify the exact headers that are sent to the server. By default, httplib/http.client injects headers like Host and Accept-Encoding. Issue