update example, since python.org is HTTPS-only now (closes #24118)

ac87ed7e · Benjamin Peterson · 8c59816b · ac87ed7e
Commit ac87ed7e authored May 03, 2015 by Benjamin Peterson
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@@ -615,18 +615,18 @@ Examples
 Here is an example session that uses the ``GET`` method::

   >>> import http.client
-   >>> conn = http.client.HTTPConnection("www.python.org")
-   >>> conn.request("GET", "/index.html")
+   >>> conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("www.python.org")
+   >>> conn.request("GET", "/")
   >>> r1 = conn.getresponse()
   >>> print(r1.status, r1.reason)
   200 OK
   >>> data1 = r1.read()  # This will return entire content.
   >>> # The following example demonstrates reading data in chunks.
-   >>> conn.request("GET", "/index.html")
+   >>> conn.request("GET", "/")
   >>> r1 = conn.getresponse()
   >>> while not r1.closed:
   ...     print(r1.read(200)) # 200 bytes
-   b'<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"...
+   b'<!doctype html>\n<!--[if"...
   ...
   >>> # Example of an invalid request
   >>> conn.request("GET", "/parrot.spam")
@@ -640,8 +640,8 @@ Here is an example session that uses the ``HEAD`` method.  Note that the
 ``HEAD`` method never returns any data. ::

   >>> import http.client
-   >>> conn = http.client.HTTPConnection("www.python.org")
-   >>> conn.request("HEAD","/index.html")
+   >>> conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("www.python.org")
+   >>> conn.request("HEAD", "/")
   >>> res = conn.getresponse()
   >>> print(res.status, res.reason)
   200 OK