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

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> 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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nosy: +loewis
title: urllib2 does not correctly handle multiple www-authenticate headers in an HTTP response -> urllib2 does not correctly handle multiple	www-authenticate headers in an HTTP response

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