[issue9639] urllib2's AbstractBasicAuthHandler is limited to 6 requests

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Ah well, it turned out to be fairly easy to work around, at least. :-) Just in case any other urllib2 users have to deal with this in 2.6.6 (and also manage to find their way to this bug report :-): it's easy to monkeypatch your way around the problem. E.g.

[issue9639] urllib2's AbstractBasicAuthHandler is limited to 6 requests

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Ouch. My mistake. Had not realize then, that code that actually broke things was merged in 2.6.x and it had to be fixed too. :( -- ___ Python tracker

[issue9639] urllib2's AbstractBasicAuthHandler is limited to 6 requests

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Grr. Why wasn't this fix backported to the release maintenance branch before 2.6.6 was released? I've just had an application break as a result of upgrading from 2.6.5 to 2.6.6. Oh well, too late now. :-( -- nosy: +mark.dickinson ___

[issue9639] urllib2's AbstractBasicAuthHandler is limited to 6 requests

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Fixed in py3k (r84210) and release31-maint(r84211). I discovered a new problem while fixing this. It will be taken care in issue9643. -- resolution: accepted -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed __

[issue9639] urllib2's AbstractBasicAuthHandler is limited to 6 requests

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Fixed in r84207(release27-maint). -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsub

[issue9639] urllib2's AbstractBasicAuthHandler is limited to 6 requests

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: The patch is fine. -- assignee: -> orsenthil nosy: +orsenthil resolution: -> accepted ___ Python tracker ___

[issue9639] urllib2's AbstractBasicAuthHandler is limited to 6 requests

New submission from Marcus Huewe : It seems that commit r81636 broke urllib2's AbstractBasicAuthHandler because the "retried" attribute isn't reset on success. Therefore it's limited to 6 requests. The attached patch should fix this problem. -- components: Library (Lib) files: urllib2-