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/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3b55447..22bc428 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@
encoding. This is the preferred encoding of PEP 3333 and the base encoding
of HTTP 1.1.
+- 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.
+
What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 1
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