Possible bug in httplib

[Don Dwiggins]

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,

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Don Dwiggins
Advanced MP Technology
dwig at advancedmp.net