[issue15943] urllib2 always sends header connection: close

2012-09-14 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: This is a duplicate of issue 12849. I'm not sure that we support keep-alive using urllib. We do using httplib, if I understand correctly. -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed supersed

[issue15943] urllib2 always sends header connection: close

2012-09-14 Thread Santiago Velasco
New submission from Santiago Velasco: I have noticed that urllib2 will always send the 'connection: close' in the headers, looking at the code there is no way to override this from outside of the open method. I am currently working with a server that kills connection upon reading the header,