Bugs item #1703110, was opened at 2007-04-18 12:56
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Bob Kline (bkline)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Incorrect example for add_password()
Initial Comment:
In the documentation for urllib2, the example [1] for using basic HTTP
authentication has the following code for the call to add_password():
auth_handler.add_password('realm', 'host', 'username', 'password')
This actually worked in earlier (pre-2.4.3) versions of urllib2, but even in
those older versions, the documentation for HTTPPasswordMgr.add_password()
makes it clear that a URI must be passed as the second argument to the method,
not a host name.
Even though the behavior in the library method has changed (passing a full URI
versions of Python earlier than 2.4.3 didn't work, at least when a non-standard
port was specified), the documentation has not changed (the add_password()
documentation specifies a URI, even in the pre-2.4.3 versions of Python) and
the examples in the documentation for urllib2 still say 'host'.
[1] http://docs.python.org/lib/urllib2-examples.html
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