[Python-Dev] urllib2 doesn't grok URLs w/ user/passwd

[John J Lee]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Alex Martelli wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 December 2003 04:03 pm, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> > SF seems to be down for some unscheduled reason.  Posting here just so I
> > don't completely forget about it should I exit my web browser before SF is
> > back up...
> >
> > urllib2.urlopen("http://foo@www.python.org/") fails (at least in part)
> > because it fails to separate the username and password from the hostname.
> > Trying to open http://foo:bar@www.python.org/ reveals other shortcomings in
[...]
> Presumably they need to be kept somewhere and sent in the Authorization
> header in case the server returns a 401 error and challenge (or a proxy
> returns a 407 error and challenge) -- or maybe the Authorization header
[...]

urllib2 already knows about this syntax for proxy auth
(ProxyHandler.proxy_open).  If somebody fixes this (assuming it needs
fixing -- I haven't read what the standards say), note that the Basic
authentication logic is duplicated, and perhaps broken in one place, which
should probably be fixed at the same time:

http://www.google.com/groups?threadm=87d6dq2jx0.fsf%40pobox.com

If nobody does it first, I'll fix it *eventually* (I'm lazy about
configuring a local proxy and web server...).

BTW, is somebody planning a 2.3.4 (or 2.2.4)?  When?  That would motivate
me to fix urllib2 bugs sooner.


John