Possible bug in httplib

[Dustin Boswell]

I'm not sure if it'll help your problem, but you should get fresh copies
of httplib.py and urllib.py (and any others).  There are a bunch of
little bugs in the Python2.0 distribution.

Try the cvs repository....
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/python/dist/src/?cvsroot=python

Hope that helps.

-Dustin Boswell ( boswell at caltech.edu )
Don Dwiggins wrote:

> I've been "doing exercises" with httplib to familiarize myself with it, and
> I ran into a problem that I think might be a bug.
>
> The HTTPConnection.request method takes an optional "body" argument, useful
> for POST requests.  When I tried to use it, the server I was talking to came
> back with an empty reply.  I was finally able to get the request accepted
> using a sequence of putheader calls to send the Content-Type header as well
> as Content-Length.  I don't know whether Content-Type is required by the
> HTTP spec, but at least one server calls for it.
>
> Can anyone offer a more authoritative answer as to whether the request
> method should be sending the Content-Type header?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Don Dwiggins
> Advanced MP Technology
> dwig at advancedmp.net