Different results for request() vs putrequest()

Fri Sep 11 12:51:05 EDT 2009

In <h7pdan5ドルiq$1 at reader1.panix.com> John Gordon <gordon at panix.com> writes:
> According to the documentation, these two sections of code should be
> equivalent:

> conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(host)
> conn.putrequest("POST", url)
> conn.putheader("Proxy-Authorization", myProxy)
> conn.putheader("Content-Length", "%d" % len(body))
> conn.endheaders()
> conn.send(body)

> vs

> headers = { "Proxy-Authorization": myProxy }
> conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(host)
> conn.request("POST", url, body, headers)

> And yet they are not. The first section works, but I get an
> "HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized" error from the second.

To follow up my own post, this was happening because of a trailing
newline in myProxy, put there by base64.encodestring().
The newline made the server stop processing any subsequent headers.
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