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  r87230 | r.david.murray | 2010-12-14 09:16:20 -0500 (Tue, 14 Dec 2010) | 7 lines

  #10695: use %s not %d so that a string 'port' does not cause a debug traceback

  Passing the port as a string value works fine in regular mode, but
  if you turned debug on it would throw an error trying to print the
  port number, which is surprising and confusing.
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+- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
+  causes debug mode to fail.
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 - Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
   that contain non-ascii values.