diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index 60a8fb4e355f897..a132d316ec8075e 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
 import re
 import socket
 from sys import py3kwarning
+import collections
 from urlparse import urlsplit
 import warnings
 with warnings.catch_warnings():
@@ -855,7 +856,15 @@ def send(self, data):
                 self.sock.sendall(datablock)
                 datablock = data.read(blocksize)
         else:
-            self.sock.sendall(data)
+            try:
+                self.sock.sendall(data)
+            except TypeError:
+                if isinstance(data, collections.Iterable):
+                    for d in data:
+                        self.sock.sendall(d)
+                else:
+                    raise TypeError("data should be a bytes-like object "
+                                    "or an iterable, got %r" % type(data))
 
     def _output(self, s):
         """Add a line of output to the current request buffer.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
index 44ffac7036886e2..56abe98d6fd2b53 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
@@ -545,6 +545,22 @@ def test_send(self):
         conn.send(StringIO.StringIO(expected))
         self.assertEqual(expected, sock.data)
 
+    def test_send_iter(self):
+        expected = b'GET /foo HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\n' \
+                   b'Accept-Encoding: identity\r\nContent-Length: 11\r\n' \
+                   b'\r\nonetwothree'
+
+        def body():
+            yield b"one"
+            yield b"two"
+            yield b"three"
+
+        conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('example.com')
+        sock = FakeSocket("")
+        conn.sock = sock
+        conn.request('GET', '/foo', body(), {'Content-Length': '11'})
+        self.assertEquals(sock.data, expected)
+
     def test_chunked(self):
         chunked_start = (
             'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-29-22-12-31.bpo-3243.-ytiRj.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-29-22-12-31.bpo-3243.-ytiRj.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..86ec3b9d717035d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-10-29-22-12-31.bpo-3243.-ytiRj.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Support iterable bodies in httplib.