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Tornado httpclient fails requesting a url that urllib works with.

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Description

I've hit a url that the httpclient it failing for that works with urllib. Below is a snippet of code with the url and showing it produces a 400 bad request from the httpclient side.

import urllib
from tornado import httpclient

url = "https://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmeier/archive/2012/05/13/the-rapid-research-method.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: jmeier (J.D. Meier's Blog)&Redirected=true"

fh = urllib.urlopen(url)
# This will load up the content just peachy...
content = fh.read()

# This will get me a 400 bad request response.
http = httpclient.HTTPClient()
try:
    response = http.fetch(url)
    print "Content should be in here."
except Exception, e:
    print "but it goes BOOM!"

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Start by reproducing the provided URL with Tornado's HTTPClient and urllib, then inspect the HTTPClient fetch path for differences in URL handling. Done means the HTTPClient can fetch this URL without the 400 response while preserving existing behavior; the issue does not name a source file or test to run.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
networking
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
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Newbie friendliness
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