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

[jurjen Bos]

jurjen Bos <j.bos-interpay at xs4all.nl> added the comment:

I would like to point out that this is not going to work if someone visits more than 5 sites with the same authentication manager. This would have to be documentated, at least.
We could fix this by putting the retry counter in the HTTPPasswordMgr; it is not hard to put in an extra field in the password database with the retry counter. See also my remarks in issue8894

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nosy: +Jurjen

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