Bugs item #1258485, was opened at 2005-08-13 16:49 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by mjfoord You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1258485&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.4 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Matthias Klose (doko) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: http auth documentation/implementation conflict Initial Comment: [forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/304925] Bug reporter writes: I was trying to implement a basic HTTP client using HTTP basic authorization. The current preferred method of doing this is by using urllib2 HTTPPasswordMgr. A simple test snippet to try this: pwmgr=urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm() pwmgr.add_password(None, url, username, password) handler=urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(pwmgr) opener=urllib2.build_opener(handler) urllib2.install_opener(opener) u=urllib2.urlopen(url) This did not work. Modifying the second line to: pwmgr.add_password(None, urlparse.urlparse(url)[1], username, password) fixed things, which shows a problem in the documentation: instead of a URI or sequence of URIs the add_password method takes a hostname. The documented behaviour would be better since it allows for multiple passwords per host, although in reality those will use different realms. So I suggest not changing the code in order to not break existing application but fixing the documentation instead. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Mike Foord (mjfoord) Date: 2005-08-30 12:58 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1123892 I think it likely that the OP was using a URL that *included* the protocol - (i.e. "http://www.somedomain.com/path";) instead of just "www.somedomain.com/path". It is a problem that also bit me - and could *definitely* do with a mention in the docs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1258485&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
