Python requests library added an additional header "Accept-Encoding: identity"
This originates deep within the bowels of http.client
, which is used by urllib3
which is used by requests
.
http.client
actually checks if there is already an accept-encoding
in the headers dictionary passed, and if there is it skips adding the identity
header - the only problem is that what is passed as headers dictionary is something like this:
CaseInsensitiveDict({b'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, compress', ...})
So why is it not working? requests
encodes the header names, and as in python3 a str
object compared to a bytes
object always is False
, the check performed in http.client
fails...
If you really want to get rid of the additional header, the quickest way would be to either comment out line 340 in requests/models.py, or monkeypatch requests.models.PreparedRequest.prepare_headers
edit:
this seems to be fixed in the (not yet released) 2.0 branch of requests
Just a learner
Updated on July 26, 2022Comments
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Just a learner almost 2 years
This is my code.
import requests from sys import exit proxies = { "http": "127.0.0.1:8888", "https": "127.0.0.1:8888", } headers = { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0", "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate", "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8", "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5", "Connection": "keep-alive" } login_page = "http://www.test.com/login/" r = requests.get(login_page, proxies = proxies, headers = headers) original_cookies = r.cookies exit(0)
This is what I got from fiddler2. As you can see, it added an additional header
Accept-Encoding: identity
.GET http://www.test.com/login/ HTTP/1.1 Accept-Encoding: identity Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Host: www.test.com Connection: keep-alive User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
I'm using Python 3.3.2 on Windows 7 64 bit and requests 1.2.3.
Anyone can give some suggestions?
Thanks.