Armin Rigo added the comment:
In my own case I use os.popen("wget ...") instead of urllib2 just because some
version long ago failed on some web site. I can trust that this external tool
works all the time. It would be great if urllib2 worked as well nowadays.
So my opinion on this issue, as a mere user, is that it is purely a bug which
Python 2.7 should fix it, and it should do so in a transparent way. Adding
some new class that can only be found by careful reading of the latest version
of the docs is useless: people will instead blame urllib2 as a whole and switch
to something else.
Can someone confirm how common browser (one is enough) deal with it? If they
also send the authorization headers in the initial request, then I really,
really don't see why urllib2 shouldn't by default.
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nosy: +arigo
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