Merge pull request #1432 from dstufft/set-accept-header

Add Accept: text/html header when processing an index
pypa · Jan 7, 2014 · 964c1ce · 964c1ce
2 parents c2361e7 + 325cd51
commit 964c1ce
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diff --git a/pip/index.py b/pip/index.py
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ def get_page(cls, link, req, cache=None, skip_archives=True, session=None):
                 url = urlparse.urljoin(url, 'index.html')
                 logger.debug(' file: URL is directory, getting %s' % url)
 
-            resp = session.get(url)
+            resp = session.get(url, headers={"Accept": "text/html"})
             resp.raise_for_status()
 
             # The check for archives above only works if the url ends with