Be more careful than the previous patch. The default content-type
should only be set to application/x-www-form-urlencoded when the
method is POST. E.g. for PUT, an empty default (defaulting to
text/plain later) makes more sense.
diff --git a/Lib/cgi.py b/Lib/cgi.py
index 5493092..d45ed26 100755
--- a/Lib/cgi.py
+++ b/Lib/cgi.py
@@ -802,7 +802,10 @@
headers = {'content-type':
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"}
if headers is None:
- headers = {'content-type': "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"}
+ headers = {}
+ if method == 'POST':
+ # Set default content-type for POST to what's traditional
+ headers['content-type'] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
if environ.has_key('CONTENT_TYPE'):
headers['content-type'] = environ['CONTENT_TYPE']
if environ.has_key('CONTENT_LENGTH'):