httplib headers

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David Brochu wrote:
> Using the following code I am trying to pass a header to my POST 
> request. (Note: urls masked)
>  
> file = sys.argv[0]
> url = sys.argv[1]
> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("XX.XXX.XX.XXX",XXXX)
> headers = {'content-type':'application/xml'}
> conn.request("POST",url,file,headers)
> response = conn.getresponse()
> head = response.getheaders()
> status = response.status
> response = response.read()
> print response, status, head
>  
> When I run this script and view the headers that get printed the 
> following displays:
>  
> [('content-length', '691'), ('proxy-connection', 'Keep-Alive'), 
> ('connection', 'Keep-Alive'), ('pragma', 'no-cache'), ('cache-control', 
> 'no-cache'), ('content-type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8')]
> Why isn't my content-type header using the value I pass in from headers?
> 
Aren't you just setting the headers for the "POST" you're sending
(you're posting a file whose content type is 'application/xml'), but
printing the headers of the response you receive (the content type of
the response is 'text/html; charset=utf-8')?