[Python-checkins] r68458 - python/trunk/Lib/httplib.py

[kristjan.jonsson]

Author: kristjan.jonsson
Date: Fri Jan  9 21:23:16 2009
New Revision: 68458

Log:
Issue 4336:  HTTPRequest._send_output() now deals with the case of the message body not being a string.  This allows clients to use endheaders(message_body) instead of endheaders() + send(message_body) without making any extra checks.

Modified:
   python/trunk/Lib/httplib.py

Modified: python/trunk/Lib/httplib.py
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Lib/httplib.py	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Lib/httplib.py	Fri Jan  9 21:23:16 2009
@@ -738,6 +738,7 @@
         """Send the currently buffered request and clear the buffer.
 
         Appends an extra \\r\\n to the buffer.
+        A message_body may be specified, to be appended to the request.
         """
         self._buffer.extend(("", ""))
         msg = "\r\n".join(self._buffer)
@@ -745,9 +746,14 @@
         # If msg and message_body are sent in a single send() call,
         # it will avoid performance problems caused by the interaction
         # between delayed ack and the Nagle algorithim.
-        if message_body is not None:
+        if isinstance(message_body, str):
             msg += message_body
+            message_body = None
         self.send(msg)
+        if message_body is not None:
+            #message_body was not a string (i.e. it is a file) and
+            #we must run the risk of Nagle
+            self.send(message_body)
 
     def putrequest(self, method, url, skip_host=0, skip_accept_encoding=0):
         """Send a request to the server.
@@ -927,12 +933,7 @@
             self._set_content_length(body)
         for hdr, value in headers.iteritems():
             self.putheader(hdr, value)
-        if isinstance(body, str):
-            self.endheaders(body)
-        else:
-            self.endheaders()
-            if body:  # when body is a file rather than a string
-                self.send(body)
+        self.endheaders(body)
 
     def getresponse(self):
         "Get the response from the server."