[issue17497] Unicode support for HTTP headers in http.client

[Matt Tierney]

New submission from Matt Tierney:

Changed the headers string charset to utf-8 since a header field may contain non-iso-8859-1 characters. For instance, a Location header field may contain Cyrillic characters.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: tierney.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 184792
nosy: tierney
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Unicode support for HTTP headers in http.client
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29512/tierney.patch

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