[Python-checkins] r43399 - in python/trunk: Lib/test/test_urllib2.py Lib/urllib.py Lib/urllib2.py Misc/NEWS

[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 3/28/06, georg.brandl <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
>> Author: georg.brandl
>> Date: Tue Mar 28 14:40:24 2006
>> New Revision: 43399
>>
>> Modified:
>>    python/trunk/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
>>    python/trunk/Lib/urllib.py
>>    python/trunk/Lib/urllib2.py
>>    python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
>> Log:
>> Bug #1459963: urllib2 now normalizes HTTP header names correctly
>> with title().
> 
> Just curious -- why would anybody ever care?

The bug report states that some servers rely on "User-Agent".
I know they can be considered broken, but why not follow the
specs a little closer and please some users... ;)

Georg