Re: [Distutils] bootstrap.py/ez_setup doesn't understand username:passwd in URLs

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:26, Attila Oláh <attilaolah@gmail.com> wrote:

Since URLs like "https://username:password@pypi.example.com/distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz" seem to be handled well by *urllib*, but not by *urllib2*, I wonder why are they handled by urllib2 instead of urllib.

Oops, I should have checked better before making the above statement. Actually neither of urllib or urllib2 can handle these types of URLs. However, it would be handy if bootstrap.py or ez_setup.py would be smart enough to handle these edge-cases. Attila