On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Matěj Cepl <mc...@redhat.com> wrote:
> I am not sure how widespread is this breaking of RFC, but it seems to me > that quite a lot (e.g., http://stackoverflow.com/a/9698319/164233 which > just en passant expects urllib2 authentication stuff to be useless), and > the question is whether it shouldn't be documented somehow and/or > urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler shouldn't be modified to try add > Authenticate header first. > > Any suggestions? > Please file a bug report at bugs.python.org stating this. urllib2 tries to follow the RFC as much as possible, but ofcourse consider's de-facto standards and adopts to it. This can be documented for 2.x and can be 'fixed in 3.4. HTH, Senthil
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