To match the behaviour of HTTP server, the HTTP client library now also encodes
headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1) encoding. It was already doing that for
incoming headers which makes this behaviour now consistent in both incoming and
outgoing direction.
diff --git a/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
index bb9fa9b..347aa61 100644
--- a/Lib/http/client.py
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@
self.send(connect_bytes)
for header, value in self._tunnel_headers.iteritems():
header_str = "%s: %s\r\n" % (header, value)
- header_bytes = header_str.encode("ascii")
+ header_bytes = header_str.encode("latin1")
self.send(header_bytes)
response = self.response_class(self.sock, method = self._method)
@@ -935,7 +935,7 @@
values = list(values)
for i, one_value in enumerate(values):
if hasattr(one_value, 'encode'):
- values[i] = one_value.encode('ascii')
+ values[i] = one_value.encode('latin1')
elif isinstance(one_value, int):
values[i] = str(one_value).encode('ascii')
value = b'\r\n\t'.join(values)