[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-823328 ] urllib2 digest auth is broken

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Bugs item #823328, was opened at 2003-10-14 20:03
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Anthony Baxter (anthonybaxter)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: urllib2 digest auth is broken

Initial Comment:
The urllib2 digest auth support is busted. For
starters, it's looking
for a header 'Authorization' with the auth header in it
- the 
correct header is WWW-Authenticate, according to rfc2617
(and confirmed by the "what does apache do?" test).
Even after 
making this fix, auth is still failing, not sure why yet.

I'm not convinced, looking at the code, that it could
have _ever_ 
worked.



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