Document skipping in PreparedRequest; followup to #2222

psf · Sep 12, 2014 · bff8b91 · bff8b91
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diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
@@ -334,7 +334,9 @@ def prepare_url(self, url, params):
         except UnicodeDecodeError:
             pass
 
-        # Don't do any URL preparation for oddball schemes
+        # Don't do any URL preparation for non-HTTP schemes like `mailto`,
+        # `data` etc to work around exceptions from `url_parse`, which
+        # handles RFC 3986 only.
         if ':' in url and not url.lower().startswith('http'):
             self.url = url
             return

diff --git a/test_requests.py b/test_requests.py
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@ def test_autoset_header_values_are_native(self):
 
         assert p.headers['Content-Length'] == length
 
-    def test_oddball_schemes_dont_check_URLs(self):
+    def test_nonhttp_schemes_dont_check_URLs(self):
         test_urls = (
             'data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAHAAACH5BAUAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==',
             'file:///etc/passwd',