From 6cbe4275cbb48ae4161143f8b97636fc19f678e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Senthil Kumaran Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:08:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add info about HTTP/1.1 and Connection:Close header. --- Doc/library/urllib.request.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index 07554157f0e..157896879b2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions: *data* should be a buffer in the standard :mimetype:`application/x-www-form-urlencoded` format. The :func:`urllib.parse.urlencode` function takes a mapping or sequence - of 2-tuples and returns a string in this format. + of 2-tuples and returns a string in this format. urllib.request module uses + HTTP/1.1 and includes `Connection:close` header in its HTTP requests. The optional *timeout* parameter specifies a timeout in seconds for blocking operations like the connection attempt (if not specified,