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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/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
index 4a078d3..a4ec8e5 100644
--- a/Lib/http/client.py
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@
             # For HTTP/1.0, the server will assume "not chunked"
             pass
 
-    def putheader(self, header, value):
+    def putheader(self, header, *values):
         """Send a request header line to the server.
 
         For example: h.putheader('Accept', 'text/html')
@@ -822,8 +822,11 @@
 
         if hasattr(header, 'encode'):
             header = header.encode('ascii')
-        if hasattr(value, 'encode'):
-            value = value.encode('ascii')
+        values = list(values)
+        for i, one_value in enumerate(values):
+            if hasattr(one_value, 'encode'):
+                values[i] = one_value.encode('ascii')
+        value = b'\r\n\t'.join(values)
         header = header + b': ' + value
         self._output(header)