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r67154 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-11-07 21:46:17 -0600 (Fri, 07 Nov 2008) | 1 line
Issue #4071: ntpath.abspath returned an empty string for long unicode path.
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r67157 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-08 05:47:44 -0600 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
Don't use "HOWTO" as the title for all howto .tex files.
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r67158 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-08 05:48:20 -0600 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
Update "Documenting" a bit. Concentrate on Python-specifics.
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r67159 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-08 06:52:25 -0600 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
Fix warning.
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r67175 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-08 19:44:32 -0600 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 1 line
update link
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r67176 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-08 19:52:32 -0600 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 1 line
fix comment
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r67189 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-11 15:56:06 -0600 (Tue, 11 Nov 2008) | 1 line
use correct name
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r67224 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-15 02:10:04 -0600 (Sat, 15 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
#4324: fix getlocale() argument.
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r67225 | brett.cannon | 2008-11-15 16:33:25 -0600 (Sat, 15 Nov 2008) | 1 line
Clarify the docs for the 'strict' argument to httplib.HTTPConnection.
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r67226 | brett.cannon | 2008-11-15 16:40:44 -0600 (Sat, 15 Nov 2008) | 4 lines
The docs for httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() have claimed for quite a while
that their could be an arbitrary number of values passed in. Turns out the code
did not match that. The code now matches the docs.
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r67227 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-16 02:00:17 -0600 (Sun, 16 Nov 2008) | 2 lines
#4316: fix configure.in markup problem.
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r67234 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-16 11:54:55 -0600 (Sun, 16 Nov 2008) | 1 line
run autoconf
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diff --git a/Doc/library/http.client.rst b/Doc/library/http.client.rst
index bcda4c9..26d919d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/http.client.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.client.rst
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
server. It should be instantiated passing it a host and optional port
number. If no port number is passed, the port is extracted from the host
string if it has the form ``host:port``, else the default HTTP port (80) is
- used. When True, the optional parameter *strict* causes ``BadStatusLine`` to
+ used. When True, the optional parameter *strict* (which defaults to a false
+ value) causes ``BadStatusLine`` to
be raised if the status line can't be parsed as a valid HTTP/1.0 or 1.1
status line. If the optional *timeout* parameter is given, blocking
operations (like connection attempts) will timeout after that many seconds