commit ae9e5f032d05377ec0aef04947b449a9a0d7a3b3
author Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> Fri Sep 09 16:43:48 2016 -0700
committer Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> Fri Sep 09 16:43:48 2016 -0700
tree f90fcb9bac9d34e068da12bb1ca36ebe53c0ef12
parent c87ae806abdf79dd5d000aaec47596122a93b29b

Issue #22450: Use "Accept: */*" in the default headers for urllib.request

Lib/urllib/request.py

diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index 3be327d..a4bf97d 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -1625,7 +1625,7 @@
         self.proxies = proxies
         self.key_file = x509.get('key_file')
         self.cert_file = x509.get('cert_file')
-        self.addheaders = [('User-Agent', self.version)]
+        self.addheaders = [('User-Agent', self.version), ('Accept', '*/*')]
         self.__tempfiles = []
         self.__unlink = os.unlink # See cleanup()
         self.tempcache = None