How do you get default headers in a urllib2 Request?

Question

I have a Python web client that uses urllib2. It is easy enough to add HTTP headers to my outgoing requests. I just create a dictionary of the headers I want to add, and pa

Answer 1

see urllib2.py:do_request (line 1044 (1067)) and urllib2.py:do_open (line 1073) (line 293) self.addheaders = [('User-agent', client_version)] (only 'User-agent' added)