code: def putrequest(self, method, url, *args, **kwargs):
          
          self._vcr_request = Request(
              method=method,
              uri=self._uri(url),
              body="",
              headers={}
          )
          log.debug('Got {}'.format(self._vcr_request))
docs: httplib gives you more than one way to do it.  This is a way
          to start building up a request.  Usually followed by a bunch
          of putheader() calls.