Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > What do you think, Raymond
Before dismissing this, we should get a better understanding of why "Accept: */*" is so widely used in practice. Here's what we know so far: * The header made a difference to the Facebook Graph API. * Curl (a minimalist) includes "Accept: */*", Host, and User-Agent. * Firefox includes "*/*" at the end of its list of acceptable types. * Kenneth Reitz's requests module uses "Accept: */*" by default. * The poolmanager in urllib3 uses "Accept: */*" by default and has a comment that that and the "Host" header are both needed by proxies. * I'm also seeing "Accept: */*" in book examples as well. See https://books.google.com/books?id=fVuWayXLdYIC&pg=PA22 and http://doc.bonfire-project.eu/R1/api/example-session.html ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22450> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
