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r84234 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-08-21 21:38:32 +0530 (Sat, 21 Aug 2010) | 3 lines
Add info about HTTP/1.1 and Connection:Close header.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib2.rst b/Doc/library/urllib2.rst
index b8f2277..973c098 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib2.rst
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@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
*data* parameter is provided. *data* should be a buffer in the standard
:mimetype:`application/x-www-form-urlencoded` format. The
:func:`urllib.urlencode` function takes a mapping or sequence of 2-tuples and
- returns a string in this format.
+ returns a string in this format. urllib2 module sends HTTP/1.1 requests with
+ `Connection:close` header included.
The optional *timeout* parameter specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking
operations like the connection attempt (if not specified, the global default