#10983: fix several bugs in the _tunnel implementation that seem to have missed while porting between branches.  A unittest is needed!
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+- Issue #10983: Fix several bugs making tunnel requests in http.client.
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 - Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp497 to decode
   filenames, at bootstrap, if the codec registry is not ready yet. It is still
   possible to have non-ASCII filenames using the Unicode flag (UTF-8 encoding)