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,

--
Don Dwiggins
Advanced MP Technology
dw...@advancedmp.net

[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 ( bos...@caltech.edu )