commit 019a2e225b168de0c72ab3aad895c83aa79ab2d9
author Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> Fri Sep 09 16:23:06 2016 -0700
committer Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> Fri Sep 09 16:23:06 2016 -0700
tree 426648b6a671243021287bc89655c27545ac38f2
parent d02905df874b9199f5dee58448f08c94f48775c4

Issue #22450: Use "Accept: */*" in the default headers for urllib

Lib/urllib.py

diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index c3ba2c9..7f70496 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
         self.key_file = x509.get('key_file')
         self.cert_file = x509.get('cert_file')
         self.context = context
-        self.addheaders = [('User-Agent', self.version)]
+        self.addheaders = [('User-Agent', self.version), ('Accept', '*/*')]
         self.__tempfiles = []
         self.__unlink = os.unlink # See cleanup()
         self.tempcache = None