Fix closes issue 1673007 urllib.request to support HEAD requests with a new method arg.
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index a947608..65ce287 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -177,7 +177,8 @@
class Request:
def __init__(self, url, data=None, headers={},
- origin_req_host=None, unverifiable=False):
+ origin_req_host=None, unverifiable=False,
+ method=None):
# unwrap('<URL:type://host/path>') --> 'type://host/path'
self.full_url = unwrap(url)
self.full_url, self.fragment = splittag(self.full_url)
@@ -191,6 +192,7 @@
origin_req_host = request_host(self)
self.origin_req_host = origin_req_host
self.unverifiable = unverifiable
+ self.method = method
self._parse()
def _parse(self):
@@ -202,7 +204,10 @@
self.host = unquote(self.host)
def get_method(self):
- if self.data is not None:
+ """Return a string indicating the HTTP request method."""
+ if self.method is not None:
+ return self.method
+ elif self.data is not None:
return "POST"
else:
return "GET"