diff -r 424d1e37c3d2 Lib/test/test_urllib_request.py
--- /dev/null   Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib_request.py   Tue Feb 01 03:31:59 2011 +0800
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+"""Unit tests for code in urllib.request."""
+
+import urllib.request
+import unittest
+
+class TestTrivial(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_do_request_should_handle_data(self):
+        "AbstractHTTPHandler's do_request_() should handle data without a Content-length header"
+        opener  = urllib.request.URLopener()
+        request = urllib.request.Request('http://does.not.matter', 'foo=bar')
+        handler = urllib.request.AbstractHTTPHandler()
+        handler.add_parent(opener)
+        self.assertIs(request, handler.do_request_(request))
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+   unittest.main()