*data* should be a buffer in the standard application/x-www-form-urlencoded
format. The urllib.parse.urlencode() function takes a mapping or sequence
- of 2-tuples and returns a string in this format. It should be encoded to
- bytes before being used as the data parameter. The charset parameter in
- Content-Type header may be used to specify the encoding. If charset
- parameter is not sent with the Content-Type header, the server following
- the HTTP 1.1 recommendation may assume that the data is encoded in
- ISO-8859-1 encoding. It is advisable to use charset parameter with encoding
- used in Content-Type header with the Request.
+ of 2-tuples and returns an ASCII text string in this format. It should be
+ encoded to bytes before being used as the data parameter.
urllib.request module uses HTTP/1.1 and includes a "Connection:close"
header in its HTTP requests.