Add QUERY to methods that expect a body

Author: mbeijen

Doc/library/http.client.rst

@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ HTTPConnection Objects
    but there is a request body, one of those
    header fields will be added automatically.  If
    *body* is ``None``, the Content-Length header is set to ``0`` for
-   methods that expect a body (``PUT``, ``POST``, and ``PATCH``).  If
+   methods that expect a body (``PUT``, ``POST``, ``PATCH``, and ``QUERY``).  If
    *body* is a string or a bytes-like object that is not also a
    :term:`file <file object>`, the Content-Length header is
    set to its length.  Any other type of *body* (files

Lib/http/client.py

@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
 
 # We always set the Content-Length header for these methods because some
 # servers will otherwise respond with a 411
-_METHODS_EXPECTING_BODY = {'PATCH', 'POST', 'PUT'}
+_METHODS_EXPECTING_BODY = {'PATCH', 'POST', 'PUT', 'QUERY'}
 
 
 def _encode(data, name='data'):

Lib/test/test_httplib.py

@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ def append(self, item):
         # Here, we're testing that methods expecting a body get a
         # content-length set to zero if the body is empty (either None or '')
         bodies = (None, '')
-        methods_with_body = ('PUT', 'POST', 'PATCH')
+        methods_with_body = ('PUT', 'POST', 'PATCH', 'QUERY')
         for method, body in itertools.product(methods_with_body, bodies):
             conn = client.HTTPConnection('example.com')
             conn.sock = FakeSocket(None)