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

2012-11-02 Thread Calvin Owens
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

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

2012-11-02 Thread Calvin Owens
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 rep...@bugs.python.org http