[issue9655] urllib2 fails to retrieve a url which is handled correctly by urllib

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com> added the comment:

Hmm, it looks like a web server problem to me.

urllib2 uses the HTTP/1.1 protocol, and sends the "Connection: close" header. I hacked urllib2: when this header is not sent, the content is retrieved normally.

This page: 
http://www.mail-archive.com/users@tomcat.apache.org/msg28684.html
describes the same problem.
The web site above does use Tomcat (can be seen in the response headers), maybe they have a wrong version?

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