[New-bugs-announce] [issue9698] When reusing an handler, urllib(2)'s digest authentication fails after multiple regative replies
Luci Stanescu
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Aug 27 08:59:28 CEST 2010
New submission from Luci Stanescu <luci.stanescu at gmail.com>:
Hi,
The HTTPDigestAuthHandler's code looks like this:
def http_error_401(self, req, fp, code, msg, headers):
host = urlparse(req.full_url)[1]
retry = self.http_error_auth_reqed('www-authenticate',
host, req, headers)
self.reset_retry_count()
return retry
After successful authentication, the HTTP server might still return an error code, such as 404 or 304. In that case, self.http_error_auth_reqed raises the appropriate HTTPError and self.reset_retry_count is not called. I think that the code should be something along the lines of:
try:
retry = self.http_error_auth_reqed('www-authenticate', host, req, headers)
except HTTPError, e:
if e.code != 401:
self.reset_retry_counter()
raise
else:
self.reset_retry_counter()
return retry
Ways to reproduce the problem: try to access a resource for which an HTTP server requires authentication but for which after successful authentication returns a negative reply. I've attached an example script to demonstrate it (for python 2.X; bug also resent in 3.X, just replace import urllib2 with from urllib import request as urllib2 ;-) ).
The same problem applies to ProxyDigestAuthHandler.
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components: Library (Lib)
files: test_urllib2.py
messages: 115054
nosy: Luci.Stanescu
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: When reusing an handler, urllib(2)'s digest authentication fails after multiple regative replies
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18656/test_urllib2.py
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