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

2012-11-07 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Calvin. - I shall act upon old bug. The tricky nature of backwards compatibility sometimes let's it stale because we can not come t a good conclusion. -- nosy: +orsenthil ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

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

2012-11-06 Thread Jesús Cea Avión
Changes by Jesús Cea Avión j...@jcea.es: -- nosy: +jcea ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16388 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[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 R. David Murray
Changes by R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com: -- resolution: - duplicate stage: - committed/rejected status: open - closed superseder: - urllib/httplib header capitalization ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[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