Index: Lib/urllib/request.py
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--- Lib/urllib/request.py	(revision 67716)
+++ Lib/urllib/request.py	(working copy)
@@ -1079,7 +1079,10 @@
 class HTTPHandler(AbstractHTTPHandler):
 
     def http_open(self, req):
-        return self.do_open(http.client.HTTPConnection, req)
+        HTTPConnection_10 = http.client.HTTPConnection
+        HTTPConnection_10._http_vsn = 10
+        HTTPConnection_10._http_vsn_str = 'HTTP/1.0'
+        return self.do_open(HTTPConnection_10, req)
 
     http_request = AbstractHTTPHandler.do_request_