[issue8797] urllib2 basicauth broken in 2.6.5: RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp

[Ionut Turturica]

Ionut Turturica <jonozzz at yahoo.com> added the comment:

Why would you waste the time and resources to test 5 times for a known to be wrong credential ?!

This is not like in a browser where the user is presented with a dialog box 5 times and he/she can try different credentials.

I don't see the point...

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