Fixes #16532 -- Clearer explanation of how the test client expects HTTP headers to be passed. Thanks for the patch, Ricardo Bánffy.

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details view, which is a good way to test code paths that use the
:meth:`django.http.HttpRequest.is_ajax()` method.
.. admonition:: CGI specification
The headers sent via ``**extra`` should follow CGI_ specification.
For example, emulating a different "Host" header as sent in the
HTTP request from the browser to the server should be passed
as ``HTTP_HOST``.
.. _CGI: http://www.w3.org/CGI/
If you already have the GET arguments in URL-encoded form, you can
use that encoding instead of using the data argument. For example,
the previous GET request could also be posed as::