From dd47ec98e2030c51b78ddf18a5765cad8bdc642d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 19:49:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Default content-type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded at
 the top level of a form.  This means that browsers that omit the content-type
 header when sending a POST command aren't penalized so heavily.

---
 Lib/cgi.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/cgi.py b/Lib/cgi.py
index 97ecbbbbc661..5493092340be 100755
--- a/Lib/cgi.py
+++ b/Lib/cgi.py
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ def __init__(self, fp=None, headers=None, outerboundary="",
                 headers = {'content-type':
                            "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"}
         if headers is None:
-            headers = {}
+            headers = {'content-type': "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"}
             if environ.has_key('CONTENT_TYPE'):
                 headers['content-type'] = environ['CONTENT_TYPE']
             if environ.has_key('CONTENT_LENGTH'):