Different results for request() vs putrequest()

[John Gordon]

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.

Anyone know why?

 

[John Gordon]

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)

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.