[New-bugs-announce] [issue13323] urllib2 does not correctly handle multiple www-authenticate headers in an HTTP response

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Nov 2 19:43:00 CET 2011


> I ran into an application that responded with two www-authenticate
> challenges  to an HTTP request. First, it sends a standard Basic
> authentication challenge and then it also returns a www-authenticate
> header referencing another scheme. 

What exactly do you mean by "then"? In HTTP, there is only a single
response to a single request, so in what way does the server send
two responses to a single request?


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