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

[Ole Martin Handeland]

Ole Martin Handeland <pythonbugs at olemartin.org> added the comment:

Thanks Sam! I can confirm that your patch is working well with basic auth. I have not tried other authentication methods, though. I'm not sure about the unredirected headers, but your fix looks like the cleanest.

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